Borrer v. State

On an indictment for murder appellant was convicted of manslaughter, with punishment assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for two years.

[1, 2] Appellant made no objection to the court submitting the issue of manslaughter, and thereby waived his right to complain of the charge. C. C. P. arts. 735 to 743, Act 33d Leg. c. 138; Vernon’s C. C. P. p. 525, note 61, and cases cited. He takes the position that the verdict is without support in the evidence, for the reason that the state’s evidence tended to show assassination, appellant’s evidence self-defense, neither tending to show…