Briscoe v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for twenty years.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed D. B. Kennard by cutting him with a knife.

Appellant,, who ran a mercantile establishment, had been selling deceased merchandise. An account due appellant had been reduced by deceased to about six dollars. According to the state’s testimony, appellant went to the home of deceased sometime prior to the homicide in an effort to collect the amount deceased still owed him. On the day of the…