Threadgill v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for six years.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Robert McRay Wood by shooting him with a pistol.

The difficulty arose over a claim on the part of deceased that appellant owed him some money. Appellant testified that deceased had approached him some time prior to the homicide and told him, in effect, that he had to pay him what he owed him; that he told deceased that he had already paid his father the amount he was due deceased; and that deceased…