Roberson v. State

MORROW, Judge.

Appellant shot and killed H. F. Boykin, wa£ indicted for murder, convicted of manslaughter, and the penalty fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for five years, hence this appeal.

Appellant was foreman of a cattle ranch situated in Mexico known as the T. O. ranch. Boykin owned a pasture near Sierra Blanca, in El Paso County. Mr. Leonard Pence, owner of the T. O. ranch, had arranged with Boykin to pasture cattle. Appellant and other employes, in charge of seventy odd head of these cattle, stopped at Sierra Blanch -over night en route to the pasture. The cattle were placed in…