Stephens v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The conviction is for murder. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of eight years.

The record shows that appellant and deceased were brothers; that they owned adjoining farms; that appellant’s land was located north of the deceased’s farm; that a controversy arose between them as to where the dividing line between their respective farms was located. Appellant contended that it was where an old fence stood while the deceased claimed that it *102was located about 10 or 12 feet further north where there was some evidence of a fence having stood at…