Carter v. State

DAVIDSON, Pbesiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

There is in the record what purports to be a substitute indictment, which charges appellant with the murder of Charles Carter by striking him with a stick of wood; the same being a deadly weapon, etc. The only evidence in the record in regard to the substitution is found in the following language: “I, Jed C. Adams, county attorney in and for Kaufman County, Texas, do certify and state, in my said official capacity, that the within and foregoing writing is…