Collins v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

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

The facts essential to a proper understanding of the issues of law made in the trial court and presented on this appeal are substantially as follows: Appellant and one Fisher had made a trade about which some dissatisfaction had arisen and on the day of the homicide appellant, in company with some others, went to the home of Fisher, to whom he was a comparative stranger, and there for the first time met Howard, the deceased, who was a brother-in-law of Fisher. In the discussion of the said…