Barklay v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

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

An inspection of the record discloses that appellant was a tenant, and in 1917 cultivated twenty acres of land belonging to a Mrs. Hampton, the renting of which was attended to by Oscar Hampton, her son. The deceased was another son of said Mrs. Hampton. The hilling was on October 22, 1917. Part of the land cultivated by appellant was put in maize, and part in cotton, and the crop of maize had been cut sometime before the killing,…