Bilberry v. State

BAKER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Stonewall County of the offense of manslaughter, and his punishment assessed at five years in the penitentiary.

The record discloses that the appellant killed Flurry Gibson at a public gathering, about the 7th of April, 1924, by shooting him with a pistol. The appellant, the deceased and others, after the business at said gathering was over, met in the vestibule or near the door of the school house, and the appellant remarked to the deceased that he, deceased, had turned his “distill outfit in,” to which the deceased replied that he…