Privett v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

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

The state relied largely upon appellant’s confession to show that appellant shot deceased, Melvin Dunson, without provocation. In his confession appellant stated that he and deceased had gone with the same girl, and that deceased had become somewhat angered because of his attentions to this girl; that on various occasions deceased had come to his (appellant’s) sister’s house and endeavored to get him to fight him; that deceased had been guilty of insulting conduct toward his sister and…