Hicks v. State

Appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree for the shooting and killing of one Doc Mays, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.

For a reversal of the judgment, appellant first says the court erred in permitting the prosecuting attorney to ask him on cross-examination the following questions:

“Q. Doc Mays is not the first man you have ever killed? A. Yes, sir. Q. Didn’t you hit this fellow Painter over the head and didn’t he die from that lick? A. I don’t know what he died from. Q. You hit him with some blunt instrument and he died shortly…