Hunter v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge. —

Conviction of murder, punishment, twenty years in the penitentiary.

There is a bill of exceptions setting forth objections to the testimony of one Butler, who was an eye-witness to a part of the fatal difficulty. Mary Ruffin was immediately present at the difficulty and separated the combatants. Butler testified that after the difficulty ended he asked Mary Ruffin how came deceased to go up to appellant just before the fight began, and that she replied, “Ida called her.” He testified also that he asked her why she walked away, to which she replied that she always did when…