Hall v. State

This appellant admittedly killed David Burton, the deceased named in the indictment, by shooting him with a pistol. He was indicted for this act and charged with murder in the first degree. This trial resulted in his conviction, by the jury, of manslaughter in the first degree and punishment fixed at imprisonment for ten years. Judgment of conviction was accordingly pronounced and entered, and he was dply sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for ten years, and appealed.

The accused depended upon self-defense to justify his having thus killed the deceased, and upon the trial a large…