Freeman v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Knox, on change of venue from the county of King. Tried below before Hon. S. I. Newton. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, fifteen years imprisonment in the penitentiary. . The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Dan Potter, by cutting him with a knife, on the 27th day of November, 1897. The opinion states all the essential facts attendant upon the homicide.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of fifteen years; hence this appeal.
It appears that appellant and deceased both lived in Guthrie, in King County. Appellant was clerking in a drugstore, and deceased was keeping a saloon. Prior to the date of the homicide the parties appear to have been friendly. Appellant owned a pet coon, and on that morning some one had turpentined it. When defendant discovered this, he made inquiries of several persons to ascertain who had done this, and…
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