Johnson v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, manslaughter; penalty, five years in the penitentiary.

The fatal difficulty occurred in the hotel room of one Mae Caldwell about ten o’clock P. M. The testimony for appellant supported his theory that he shot at State’s witness Doc Elliott in self-defense and accidentally killed the deceased, John Harris. His evidence tended to show that Doc Elliott was armed with a pearl handled pistol at the time of the' fatal difficulty and circumstances were introduced tending to show that this pistol came from the room of Geneva Workhizer, a witness who was placed upon the stand by…