Willis v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of four years; hence this appeal. This is the second appeal. See 75 S. W. Rep., 790. The prosecution there, as here, was for killing Claude Shaw; and the facts proven on this trial are substantially the same proven on the former trial, to which reference is here made.

When A. Patterson (witness for defendant) was on the stand,' he was examined as to H. H. Shaw and his three sons coming to his shop in the town of Ennis in 1902. He stated they stopped in front of…