Tillman v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for fifty years.

Appellant, a negro, an employee of W. E. Bonner, a white man, and one Oscar Kelton, a white man, on the evening before the homicide had a difficulty in which both drew pistols but neither fired. Two or* three weeks before the homicide appellant received a letter in which it was stated: “You wind up your business, in short, and get away from liere,”_ which was signed “Committee,” This letter appellant showed to the sheriff of Madison County and…