Stewart v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and given five years in the penitentiary as his punishment. The facts show that defendant and deceased had been neighbors and friends for over twenty years, living in the same neighborhood. The State’s ease is in substance:

That on the 17th of January, 1907, appellant killed the deceased Eutherford. Mrs. Workman was the only eyewitness to the homicide, and testified that she, her husband, J. E. Workman, and their two ehildrn had just arrived in Young County from the Indian Territory and had bought some land from…