Hall v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of fifteen years.

On the night of December 31st, 1922, the appellant shot and killed Winfield Knox, a boy about sixteen years of age. The deceased and others, on a bright moonlight night, engaged at a neighbor’s house in what was called “tick-tacking,” that is, attaching a string to a window and then rubbing the string with a greasy rag, producing a peculiar noise. After engaging in this prank at the home of Caskey, a neighbor of the appellant, the deceased Winfield Knox, Caskey and…