Knight v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted, of murder and his punishment assessed at fifteen years confinement in the State penitentiary.

The State’s case is, that ill-will existed between appellant and his brother-in-law, J. M. Wilson, deceased. The State does not undertake to show the specific cause of the trouble between the two men, and the reason for the existence of the ill-will, further than to show that deceased had been informed that appellant had employed Eugene Dagle to whip him, deceased. With this proof, the State then showed that on the morning of the difficulty appellant went to the…