Taylor v. State

MORROW, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment condemning appellant to twenty-five years confinement in the State penitentiary for the murder of Rex Chamberlain.

The deceased was killed by a discharge of buckshot from a shotgun shortly before dark on December 24, 1915. The homicide took place in the vicinity of Taylor’s store, which was owned by appellant’s uncle, and along a road running in an eastern direction from the store there were situated bn the south side the premises of Ivan Taylor, a brother of appellant, about 250 yards from the store, appellant’s premises, approximately two-thirds…