Hart v. State

While the evidence for the State was ample to authorize the verdict finding the accused guilty of the offense of murder, there was evidence for the accused which tended to show that two brothers and their aunt, accompanied by the decedent, went to the house of the ac*357eused for the purpose of demanding of him a settlement of certain claims of the aunt against him; that when one of the brothers demanded such a settlement, the accused contended ' that there was nothing to be settled, as he had already made a settlement with the lady; whereupon the man who had demanded the settlement applied…