McHenry v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

Appellant was indicted in the District Court of Hpshur County charged with the murder of one Alex Earp, Jr. On trial he was convicted of manslaughter, and given a term of five years confinement in the penitentiary.

The evidence, in a general way, shows that appellant with his family, including several sons, was at the date of the homicide living in the country on a farm belonging to one Harrison. That more than once before the crime alleged, a portion of the fence on the place had been burned, and that this led to some unpleasantness between appellant and Earp, growing out of…