Joyner v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge. —

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for ninety-nine years.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Mattie Mallett by shooting her with a gun.

The parties involved are negroes. Althought they were not married, appellant and deceased lived together. Their relations had not always been pleasant, the testimony being to the effect that on several occasions they had quarreled. Appellant testified that sometime prior to the homicide he and deceased had had a quarrel resulting in deceased…