Lilley v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge. —

Appellant was convicted in the district court of Hardin County of murder, and his punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary.

Appellant and Gray, deceased, lived near each other and were at outs resulting principally from differences and disputes between the wives and children of the respective families. On the morning of the homicide deceased and his young son were sawing wood some distance from the houses of the parties, estimated at from a few hundred yards to a quarter of a mile. Appellant took his double-barrel shotgun loaded with buckshot, went to the place…