Washington v. State

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, his punishment being assessed at twenty years confinement in the penitentiary.

The serious question in the case is raised on the charge of manslaughter. The court charged upon communicated insults and all the environments of the case in a general way as shedding light on the condition of the mind of appellant at the time he shot and killed the deceased. Without going into a detailed statement of the evidence, we deem it sufficient to state that appellant and deceased were brothers-in-law, and had been on amicable terms. Appellant came…