Stovall v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter and his punishment assessed at four years confinement in the State penitentiary.

The charge of the court presents three phases of homicide, to wit: Murder in the first and second degrees, manslaughter, and assault to murder and aggravated assault. Appellant and deceased were both young men, had been living in Eastland County and knowing each other quite well for some time. On the night deceased received a stab at the hands of appellant they had both attended a party and about eleven o’clock at night "went to the little town of Nimrod in…