Dougherty v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

On April 23 of last year, about 2 o’clock in the afternoon, on .a prominent street in the city of Brownsville, appellant shot and killed F. BreAer. - Thereafter on the 11th day of October, 1909, an indictment was filed in the District Court of Cameron County charging appellant with murder. At a trial had in said court on November 10 appellant was by the jury found guilty of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of twenty years.

The evidence shows that Brewer, the deceased, was a negro, and a Pullman porter on a…