Lillie, Alias Shavers v. State

PRENDERGAST, Peesiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter. He was indicted and tried for the murder of Jennie Allen, a negro girl about eight years old.

The court committed no error in overruling his motion for a continuance. His motion was so wholly insufficient that it is needless to state or discuss it.

The undisputed testimony shows that at a supper at a negro’s house at night appellant shot at his wife three distinct times (though he said, only twice). The first shot struck his wife in the leg above her knee. The second shot struck the little negro girl in the side of the head,…