Shaw v. State

HURT, Presiding Judge.

This conviction is for murder in the second degree, the punishment being assessed at twenty years in the penitentiary. The uncontroverted facts in this case establish that the deceased was a young man, about grown, hired to work for the defendant about the 1st of February, 1893, on his farm in Cooke County, at $12.50 per month, with board and washing; that he continued in the employment of defendant until about the 16th or 17th of July of said year, when, not giving satisfaction to his employer, he was discharged. At the time he was discharged, the defendant was engaged…