Berg v. State

Appeal from the District Court of Jefferson. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. Pope. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The evidence showed that the homicide grew out of a domestic quarrel concerning the children of deceased; that the deceased had been married to defendant’s sister, with whom he had several children when she died; that these children were minors and were left in the custody of defendant’s mother; that deceased married again and lived in Waco, and defendant lived with his mother and_ these children in…