Humpolak v. State

'The appellant was indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree for killing one Michal Bush, and was tried thereon and found guilty of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at seven years’ confinement in the State Penitentiary, land prosecutes this appeal from the judgment of conviction.

It appears from the testimony that the deceased was killed in the field of one 'Semelka, by whom he was employed, and whose field joined that of the defendant. That, on the morning of the killing, Semelka and 'Bush were plowing in the' field, and, when Bush* reached the south end of the…