Barlow v. State

HARPER, Judge.

—Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of murder in the first degree, in the District Court of Tyler County, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life.

It appears that one afternoon in April of last year deceased, who was an uncle of appellant, gave appellant, a boy seventeen years of age, a severe whipping with a mule whip, striking him a time or two over the head with a shingle, and “butted” him against a wall. • It also appears that appellant had gashes on his head and neck, one witness saying they were about one and one-half inches in length. Deceased was a man about…