Vintson v. State

Appellant was convicted of the offense of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to serve a term of ten years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The circumstances surrounding the offense with which he was charged, and for which he was convicted, were, as the evidence tends to show, substantially as follows:

There was bad blood between appellant and one Jess Clark, the son-in-law of the deceased, Ike Snider, due, it appears, to the fact that Clark claimed to have discovered his wife, in the dead hours of the night, some several weeks prior to the killing of Snider, in company with appellant…