Morgan v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years, hence this appeal.

The difficulty over which this homicide resulted grew out of a difference between the parties in regard to the payment of $33.50, being a fine assessed against a negro by the name of Ligón. Deceased, Charley Barnhill, and his brother Will, together with defendant L. T. Morgan, and his two brothers, John and Will, composed the firm of Morgan & Barnhill, doing a mercantile' business at Plum, Fayette County. The…