Key v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was put to trial upoft an indictment which charged him with the offense of murder in the second degree; specifically, that he unlawfully and with malice aforethought killed Andrew Key by shooting him with a gun, but without premeditation or deliberation, etc. The trial resulted-in the conviction of defendant for the offense of manslaughter in the first degree, and the jury fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of two years. He was duly sentenced by the court in accordance with the verdict of the jury, and from the judgment of…