Wolf Jr. v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Coryell County of murder, and his punishment fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary. •

Appellant’s first contention in his brief is of the court’s charge on manslaughter wherein the jury were told: “It is not enough that the mind is merely agitated by passion arising from some other provocation, or a provocation given by some person other than deceased.” This is part of the statutory definition of sudden passion as appears in Article 1129 of our Penal Code in connection with the law of manslaughter, and same was given in…