Quintana v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is manslaughter; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for three years.

J. Quintana, father of appellant, had been sent by the sheriff’s department to a dance, where it was his duty to keep order. Deceased had been removed from the dance by Quintana and taken to the corner of the house. According to appellant’s testimony, deceased was. drunk and disorderly, but as viewed by the state’s witnesses he was sober and orderly.. While at the corner of the house deceased was shot in the back by appellant. A witness for the state testified that when Quintana was…