Smith v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted, charged with murder, convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at seven years confinement in the penitentiary. .

Briefly stated, appellant killed the man who married his stepdaughter. Deceased and his wife had separated on more than one occasion, and were living apart at the time of the tragedy, she being with her stepfather. Reports as to what deceased intended to do had been carried to appellant, and on the evening of the killing appellant went by a neighbor’s house, and seeing deceased in there called to him and told him he…