Adams v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree. He was by a jury found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the State penitentiary for a term of two years.

The evidence is undisputed that appellant killed the deceased by shooting him with a pistol. The appellant fired three times. Two of the bullets struck deceased. The ap-’ pellant was in his automobile on a public road approximately in front of deceased’s premises at the time he fired the shots.

The evidence presented by the State was directed toward showing that…