Stevison v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Kaufman. Tried below before Hon. J. E. Dillard. Appeal from a conviction of manslaughter; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for five years.
The first bill of exceptions shows, “that W. A. French was called as a witness for the State, and testified that he was at his table eating breakfast when he heard the shooting at the negro cabin, from one hundred to, one hundred and seventy feet from his residence, on the same block on his premises, at which Tom Fash was killed by the defendant, Tom -Stevison; that upon hearing the shooting he ran to his back door, and there met Mary Stevison (wife of defendant)…
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