Mangum v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of murder with malice, as evidenced by the killing of L. M. Smith, and was assessed a penalty of twenty years therefor.

It appears that appellant, a minister, and also a carpenter by trade, had been divorced from his wife; and their children, one married girl and two young boys, were living with the wife. Mr. Smith had been coming to the divorced wife’s home, after the divorce, and had at times taken her and her children to church. On the night of the fatal difficulty Mr. Smith and the boys, the daughter and her husband, and appellant’s former wife,…