Everett v. State

WHITE, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was indicted for the murder of one Season, and on his trial was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at a term of eighteen years in the penitentiary.

In brief, the substantial and essential facts as they are made to appear by the record before us are as follows: The defendant had rented land from Season for cultivation. The house in which he lived wras situated inside the field in which he raised his crops, but some forty or fifty steps from the gate which led into the pasture in front of the house, which pasture was used by…