Hightower v. State

BERRY, Judge.

The offense is murder and the punishment is fifteen years in the penitentiary.

The killing occurred in the .City of Bryan and the parties to the transaction were both negroes. The state’s testimony shows an unjustifiable killing and is sufficient to show that it was done upon malice. The appellant defended on the theory that the deceased had carried his daughter away from home as he believed for immoral purposes, the testimony tending strongly to show that the daughter of appellant was of rather weak mind. The state’s testimony showed that after taking the daughter of appellant…