Hobbs v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

Appellant was charged by indictment with the murder of one Ed Kelly, alleged to have been committed on the 5th day of September, 1906, in Hill County, Texas. He was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment assessed at four years confinement in the penitentiary.

The facts in brief show that appellant, at the time of the homicide, was a young man slightly past 21 years of age, living with his young wife, and baby a few months old, some four miles east of Itasca on a farm. The deceased was a man some 35 years or more, and was practically a stranger in the community. About a…