Thomas v. State

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

Under an indictment charging murder in the first degree this appellant has been adjudged guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of three years.

The evidence presented by the State tends to show that a discussion took place between the appellant and the deceased as to whether the deceased had backed his automobile into the appellant’s parked car; when deceased denied he had hit appellant’s car the appellant called him a damned liar, and told him he had.

At this juncture appellant shot the deceased with a pistol, inflicting…