Boaz v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Appellant shot and killed McDowell. Indicted for murder, he was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

The appellant was about thirty-four years of age, had been married about nine years; his wife was about thirty-one years of age, and there was one child. Before the marriage deceased had been a suitor of appellant’s wife, and after the marriage there had been conducted between the deceased and Mrs. Boaz a clandestine correspondence, and interviews had taken place, of which the appellant was…