Anderson v. State

MORROW, Judge.

Appellant under indictment for murder was conicted of manslaughter.

According to the State’s theory appellant shot and killed deceased under circumstances which constituted murder. Appellant claims to have acted in self-defense. One of his eyewitnesses was his stepson. Emmett Burns. This witness was present and testified in substance that deceased came to the restaurant where he was killed armed with a pistol; that appellant at the time immediately before the shooting was behind a partition door-jamb with his head sticking out and with a target rifle in his hand which was pointed…