Bradley v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Kaufman. Tried below before the Hon. F. L. Hawkins. Appeal from a conviction of manslaughter; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the District Court of Kaufman. Tried below before the Hon. F. L. Hawkins. Appeal from a conviction of manslaughter; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The daughter of the deceased testified substantially that her father had returned from Kaufman, and after seating himself on the gallery for awhile, went down the road with his little boys to look for the cows; that shortly after that the defendant rode up to her father’s house and that she and her older brother Jimmy were there together; that defendant asked her brother for a chew of tobacco, and when he did not…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was given two years in the penitentiary for manslaughter.
1. Appellant requested the court to charge the jury as follows: “In this case you are instructed that if the deceased prior to the time of the killing had made threats to take the life of defendant or to' do him some serious bodily injury, and such threats had been communicated to defendant; and at the time of the killing the deceased by some act then done produced in the mind of defendant the belief that he, the deceased, was about to carry into execution such threats so made theretofore, and the…
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