Havard v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This conviction was for manslaughter, the punishment assessed being four years confinement in the penitentiary.

The difficulty resulting in the death of the deceased occurred at night about nine o’clock at a social gathering. Rufus' Cook, brother of deceased, and Arthur Shannon had some words in the house where the social gathering was in progress, and went out to the gate to settle the trouble. As they went out. Rufus called to his brother (the deceased) to go with him; that the deceased went along, as did Albert Thompson and appellant. Just after passing out of the…