Brewer v. State

Appellant was convicted of the offense of manslaughter in the first degree, and given a sentence to serve imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of five years. It was shown that he shot and killed one Victor Shirley.. We will undertake to make no more extended statement of the tendencies of the evidence than we think is necessary to illustrate the holdings we shall announce. It was shown without dispute that deceased, one R. L. Sanford, and one Holley Logan, after getting together and riding about the country a bit, went to the store operated by appellant’s father, Joe Buck Brewer, at…