Lockett v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was charged with the unlawful killing with malice of Robert Johnson, known as “Mus’have’it” Johnson, and by the jury convicted and given a term of 25 years in the penitentiary, and he appeals from such sentence.

The facts show that a bunch of Negroes were engaged in a gambling game and played for considerable money all night in the city of Lubbock. As usual, there seemed to have been some disagreements between the contestants in the game, but such were not indulged in by appellant and the deceased. The state’s testimony seems to show that appellant owed the deceased…