Fifer v. State

Appellant was indicted in Haskell county, charged with murdering Will McGinnis by shooting him "with a gun, and convicted of manslaughter in said court on December 4, 1924, and his punishment assessed at 3 years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

The record in this case discloses that both the appellant and deceased were negroes, and that the appellant shot the deceased in the yard of the appellant late at night, while deceased was scratching upon the screen or working at the window near the bed of a 14-year old stépdaughter of defendant, who, the evidence discloses, was paralyzed, or partially…