Carpenter v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Cottle County of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

Appellant was a share-cropper tenant of deceased. Trouble and bad feeling existed prior to the day of the homicide. Appellant had a field of sorghum cane. Just before it was ready'to cut for hay, he left the premises and was gone for some weeks and while away, deceased cut said cane. The men disagreed about payment for the cutting and deceased objected to the removal of division of the cane hay until the cutting was paid for. As part of…