Driver v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at thirty-nine years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. The record shows that the homicide occurred at Prairie Yiew Normal School, in Waller County, situated five or six miles from Hempstead. The defendant was the head cook at said institution, and the deceased, Tom Mack, was the steward. Defendant had been to Hempstead on the day of the killing, and had ridden the horse of the deceased. He returned in the evening, and hitched the horse at the gate, and went in. The State…