Jacobs v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.—The

appellant was convicted in the District Court of Grayson County of the offense of manslaughter and his punishment fixed at two years confinement in the penitentiary. The facts sufficiently appears in the opinion.

The first complaint is of the fact that the trial court gave to the jury a charge defining “malice aforethought" after the argument was concluded. The bill of exceptions taken to this action of the court in giving said charge contains the following statement, as a part of the main bill prepared and presented by appellant to the court fcelow, to-wit; “The reading…