Porter v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

— The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for ninety-nine years.

It was charged in the indictment that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Ed. Lawson by shooting him with a gun.

The parties involved are negroes. Appellant and his wife had had some trouble and she had gone to the home of deceased’s wife. Appellant followed her there and was ordered away by deceased’s wife. According to the testimony of the wife of deceased, appellant cursed and abused her when she ordered him away. Appellant denied that he was guilty of any unbecoming…