Lancaster v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at seven and a half years in the penitentiary, and he prosecutes this appeal. (1) On the trial of the case the State proved, by B. T. Sargent and W. A. Porter, that, on the day of the appellant’s arrest, and a short time prior thereto, they saw the defendant, Jim Lancaster, and his father, J. R. Lancaster, and his uncle, Buck Lancaster, in a stall in the wagon yard of Jim Skipper, and that they were squatted or “hunkered” down; and they saw Jim Lancaster take a book from his pocket and hand it…