Walker v. State

ON SECOND APPLICATION FOR REHEARING.

March 30, 1921.

MORROW, Presiding Judge and HAWKINS, Judge.

The appellant insists that in deciding this case and in overruling the motion for rehearing the court has mistaken the rules of law applicable to the facts; and considering the gravity of the case, we have given attention to the motion of the appellant to have considered his second motion for rehearing.

Our statute on manslaughter declares that “insulting words or conduct of the person killed towards a female relation of the party guilty of the homicide” is adequate cause to reduce the offense to the…