Stillwell v. State

BERRY, Judge.

The offense is murder, and the punishment is five years in the penitentiary.

The state’s testimony as well as the appellant’s confession shows that the deceased had been going with the wife of the appellant about a year and that appellant had told him and his wife that he wanted them to quit going together and that on the night of the killing, appellant’s wife left home and went over to Jim Guy’s house and that after she was gone, appellant followed her and on reaching Guy’s home found the deceased, appellant’s wife, Jim Guy, Jack Johnson and Sam Jones on the porch, and he spoke a…