Seaton v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense manslaughter, penalty two years in the penitentiary.

Appellant and the deceased, Sweeden, were brothers-in-law, the wife of deceased being the sister of appellant. The difficulty arose over the conduct of deceased and his daughter by a former marriage toward the said sister of appellant. The evidence is conflicting on the issue of self-defense set up by the appellant. Appellant claims that deceased had a pistol in his bosom and was about to draw same when he shot and killed him. There was a pistol found under the body of deceased near his bosom.

The wife of deceased and…