Crow v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at fifteen years confinement in the penitentiary.

While McAlister was testifying appellant proposed to prove by him that he saw deceased Sam Brown, not a great while before the homicide, in the town of Red Oak, drunk or under the influence of whisky; and while in this condition undertook to kill his brother Gus Brown, with a meat ax; and further that witness and others had to hold deceased, in order to prevent him from killing his brother with the meat ax; and further that said passion or…