Brownlee v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years.

Appellant’s second assignment of error complains that the court permitted Mrs. Maggie Gibbs to testify to the conduct and behavior of deceased on the night of the killing and prior to the breaking up of the dance at Bendy Gibbs’, she stating that said conduct of the deceased was as nice as could be, that he acted a perfect gentleman. If as appellant insists, defendant did not know of the conduct of the de ceased, any conduct on his part…