Cox v. State

BAKER, Judge. —

The appellant was indicted in the district court of Harrison County, charging him with murdering Henry Lattimore by shooting him with a pistol, and convicted of manslaughter and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years.

The facts briefly stated, as shown by the record, show that the appellant and the deceased were both negroes and that on the day of the homicide the defendant returning home rather unexpectedly missed his wife and in looking for her went to the "shack” of the deceased and when upon the porch just before he knocked on the…