Hill v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at thirty years confinement in the penitentiary.

Appellant in his motion for a new trial objected to the following charge of the court: “How, if you believe from the evidence that the defendant, prior to the time he killed Charley House (if he did so) had been informed by Clarence Griffin or by Chester Griffin, that the said Charley House, had used insulting language towards the daughter of the defendant, in substance that the said Charley House had stated that he had had sexual intercourse with…