Goodman v. State

BERRY, Judge.

The offense is manslaughter, and the punishment is five years in the penitentiary.

Appellant in his brief has made a very accurate statement of the salient facts in the case from which we take the following :

The appellant, William Bryan Goodman, was indicted on the 3rd day pi July, 1925, for the murder of Charles S. Swinney. One Joe Brown was also indicted for the same offense. The defendant Goodman was first tried and convicted of the offense of manslaughter. The deceased, Charles S. Swinney, was shot on the 21st day of June, 1925, at about 4 o’clock in the morning. Various…