Harper v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder and given a penalty of five years in the penitentiary, hence this appeal.

There are no bills of' exceptions in the record save those relative to the trial court’s refusal to give certain special charges.

The facts show that appellant and the deceased, J. D. Moore, both negroes, were common law husband and wife; that the course of their thus married life had not been running smoothly; that about a week prior to the fatal difficulty appellant had made an assault upon the deceased with a knife, and upon a command by a negro policeman she was…