Winn v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter and his punishment assessed at three years confinement in the penitentiary.

Bill of exceptions Ho. 1 shows that after the State had closed its evidence counsel for appellant asked the court to retire the jury, and requested the court to instruct the State’s counsel not to ask the defendant, when he was put on the stand as a witness in his own behalf about having been indicted for killing a Mexican in Leon County, Texas, in or about 1887 or 1888, nor to ask the appellant about having plead guilty to theft of hogs in Robertson County, in the…