Regittano v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was charged with murder and convicted of manslaughter; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

He shot and killed Harriet Jenkins. The deceased was a woman of negro blood, but apparently white. She was the paramour of the appellant. The two were riding in an automobile at night-time.

This is appellant’s version of the homicide. She was driving the car and stopped it at about six miles out. Appellant got out to crank it. She told him that she wanted $200 and used abusive language to him. He had more than that amount of money on his…