Rice v. State

The appellant (defendant in the court below) was indicted for murder in the second degree and convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for one year and one day as punishment.

The evidence for the state tended to show that Jim Horton, the deceased, had accused the defendant of stealing some of his cotton, and had requested the defendant to pay for it; that on the morning of the killing deceased went to the home of the defendant, and when he got near the kitchen door he met Charlie Timmons; that Timmons went into the house and the defendant came out.…