White v. State

The plaintiff in error, John White, was tried in the district court of Cotton county upon an information for the murder of Frank Horton. The jury by their verdict found him guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, and assessed the punishment at seven years in the penitentiary. From the judgment rendered in pursuance of the verdict he appeals.

The deceased lived about 10 miles south of Temple on a farm. On the date alleged, between 5 and 6 o’clock in the evening, he was planting cotton near the east and west section line when the defendant walked up the road from his home about , half a mile…