Reagan v. State

McCORD, Judge.

Under an indictment for murder appellant was convicted of manslaughter with a penalty of five years, and from this judgment of conviction has appealed to this court and asks for a revision of the action of the court below.

Briefly stated, the facts show that on the 7th day of May, 1909, in the county of Robertson, the deceased, Knox Whitehead, while plowing in' a field was shot down and killed. The facts also show that appellant was the man that killed him; that he lived in Madison County, about nine miles from where Whitehead lived, and that on the morning of the killing the…