Wilson v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted, charged with murder and convicted of manslaughter.

In this case it appears that Alfred Diffie, a young man, called to see a daughter of appellant one Saturday night, and the next night she went t-o church with her parents, Alfred Diffie accompanying her home. Her mother and father getting home first, lighted the parlor, and retired to their room, her father undressing preparatory to retiring. Mr. Wilson says, after some minutes he heard a noise and heard his daughter calling him; he rushed in the parlor and Alfred Diffie had his daughter on the floor,…