Henry v. State

BETHEA, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of murder and his punishment assessed at five years in the penitentiary.

A brief statement of the facts is necessary for a proper discussion of the questions raised in the record. On the afternoon of the 17th day of January, 1926, between three and four o’clock, the deceased, Mack Crowder, was chopping wood some little distance north of his house. The appellant came to where the deceased was at work, and a conversation took place between the two men. The deceased’s wife, Pearl Crowder, who, from the record, is the only eye-witness to the killing,…