Baxter v. State

MORROW, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment condemning appellant to confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of eleven years for the murder of Calvin Sellars.

Appellant was the son-in-law of deceased. There was some evidence of had feeling between them. Mrs. Sellars, mother of deceased, an eyewitness, testified that her son traveling on horseback stopped at her gate and talked a few moments with her, and as he was about to leave remarked, “I see John now.” That he then rode away, meeting the appellant, John Baxter, about ninety steps from the witness. That as they met deceased said,…