Burnett v. State

HENDEBSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment assessed at two years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal.

The homicide occurred as the result of a difficulty between two negroes in the town of Bonham, Texas; deceased was a drayman and appellant was the driver of a delivery wagon. It appears that deceased made some remark about appellant procuring a certain colored woman in town for some white man. About noon appellant accosted deceased in regard to said remark, and cursed and abused him about it. Deceased threatened to get a gun and kill appellant.…