Gilmore v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

—The judgment appealed from condemns appellant to confinement in the penitentiary for a period of twenty years for the offense of murder. Appellant shot and killed Lunsford Warrick. Besides murder, the issues of manslaughter, self-defense and provoking the difficulty were submitted.

Appellant was a son-in-law of C. I. Boules and resided at his hotel. The deceased was also his son-in-law.

There was evidence that the deceased and Pete Boules, a son of C. I. Boules, had told the appellant’s wife that his relations with a certain woman domiciled in t.he Todd Cottage were…