Emmons v. State

BAKER, Judge. —

Appellant was charged by indictment with murder by shooting and killing Mack Ryno with a pistol on or about the 4th day of September, 1923, in a barber shop at Wortham, in Freestone County, and was tried and convicted of manslaughter in the district court of said county on January 14, 1924, and his punishment assessed at three years confinement in the penitentiary; from which conviction he has appealed to this court, seeking a reversal of the judgment of the trial court upon alleged errors of said court as shown by his bills of exceptions 1 to 15 inclusive.

The evidence in the…