English v. State

MORROW, Judge.

The conviction is for manslaughter, and punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for four years.

Complaint is made of the ruling of the court admitting in evidence testimony to the effect that during the game of basketball Henry English, a brother of appellant, applied to the deceased an insulting epithet. The same ruling was upheld upon the former appeal. English v. State, 85 Texas Crim. Rep., 450, 213 S. W. Rep., 634. The decision was not challenged upon motion for rehearing. It furnished the guide for the trial judge in the instant case. It becomes the law of the…