Brown v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

The appellant was indicted for the murder of Will Findley, his father-in-law, on November 4, 1910, tried and convicted by the jury of murder in the second degree‘and his penalty fixed at ten years in the penitentiary.

The evidence, in effect, and without contradiction establishes that the appellant was the son-in-law of the deceased; the wife of appellant being the daughter of deceased. That at the time and for some time prior thereto all the parties had been living together in the same house. The house consisted of two sixteen feet rooms adjoining, with merely a partition…