Hathcock v. State

The appellant was convicted in the district court of Bell county for murder, and his punishment assessed at ten years in the penitentiary.

This is the second appeal of this case to this court. The first appeal will be found in 263 S. W. 587. The record discloses that the difficulty, which resulted in the death of the deceased, occurred on the public streets of the city of Belton, on November 25, 1922. It appears from the record that there had been a singing school in the neighborhood of the appellant arid the deceased, Garner, in which Garner guaranteed to the teacher a certain sum before he…