Barrett v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— -Conviction is for murder with an assessed punishment of twenty, years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

Appellant and deceased lived near each other, both being farmers. Appellant had been getting drinking water from a well situated on land belonging to deceased but just outside the fence. A short time before the homicide appellant had impounded an animal belonging to deceased and made a small charge therefor which seems to have incensed deceased and he forbade appellant from longer getting water from the well, and 'this angered appellant. While plowing in his field,…