Lake v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

From a conviction of murder, with twelve years in the penitentiary assessed as the punishment, this appeal is prosecuted.

Because the case must be reversed, we will not specially discuss the testimony. We will make merely a general statement. On some points the testimony is in direct conflict, that of appellant himself contradicting the other disinterested eyewitnesses. It will not be necessary to state this conflict.

The killing occurred late one evening. About 3 o’clock that evening appellant took his neighbor and friend, Mr. Black, from Quitman, where they both…