Berry v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at ten years confinement in the State penitentiary, from which judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

The facts would show that John McGahan was a tenant of appellant during the years 1911 and 1913. The first trouble of any character that arose between them was in the fall of 1911 over a dollar which appellant claimed McGahan had wrongfully appropriated to his own use. However, it appears that subsequent to this the relations between the two men became friendly, and were so at least during a part of…