Eason v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Van Zandt County of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

Appellant was charged with the murder of one Day Adrian. Without serious controversy as to the fact, appellant proved intimacy of deceased with his wife—communication of that fact to him, and the shooting of deceased by him shortly thereafter and apparently at the first meeting of the parties. A 'contention of self-defense, based on threats of deceased, and that he was about to make an attack on appellant at the time of the…