Shannon v. State

Conviction for murder; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

That appellant shot deceased with a shot gun, thereby causing his death, is undisputed. That appellant had charged deceased with theft, had said that his wife had been drunk, and had made other statements against him, seems also without dispute. That deceased had made many threats against appellant of which the latter had been informed, seems also uncontradicted. At the time of this killing appellant was at work upon a wagon. Deceased, accompanied by his wife in a car, drove up and stopped. Deceased asked appellant if he was…