Vaughn v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

Upon an indictment which charged defendant (appellant) with the offense of -murder in the first degree, he was tried and convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. His punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for five years.

The deceased named in the indictment was named Virgil Parker, and he was sometimes called Bud Parker. There is no dispute about the fact that the said Parker was killed, on the night in question, by having been shot, nor is there any dispute about the fact that the death wound upon his body was in his back, near the center of…