Goodwin v. State

Martin, Judge.

The offense is murder, the penalty death.

Lloyd Elliott in February, 1930, had a bunch of hogs which ranged in and near the Sulphur River bottom in the vicinity of where appellant and his father and brother lived. Some of these hogs were missing on Friday. The deceased began a search for his missing hogs and visited at the horns of one of the Goodwins. It is shown that appellant’s father had killed a short time before this homicide a hog which apparently belonged to Elliott, and that appellant became afraid that Elliott was after him or his father for the theft of his hog and…