Rezeau v. State

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Dallam County of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.

The facts will sufficiently appear in the discussion of the various propositions involved in this opinion. The theory of the State in this prosecution rests upon the hypothesis that appellant had in some sense falsely imprisoned the deceased who, in an effort to free himself therefrom, reduced appellant to the extremity of taking the life of deceased in order to save his own; that appellant being himself the original wrongdoer…