Lewis v. State

HAWKINS,

Appellant was convicted of the murder of Clarence Mathews, and his punishment assessed at forty years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

The court declined to charge on manslaughter. Timely objections were urged because of this omission, and a special charge on the subject, presented, which was refused.

All the parties to this homicide were negroes. The trouble resulting in the killing arose over a dispute between appellant on the one hand, and- the deceased, Clarence Mathews, and his son Ewart, on the other, over the manner in which the Mathews were gathering corn. Cleveland Williams…