Denson v. State

HAWKINS, Judge. —

Conviction is for murder, punishment being six years in the penitentiary.

Appellant shot and killed Edgar Brawley about eleven o’clock on Sunday morning in the town of Spur. The day before in the same town deceased and his father (J. A. Brawley) had a fight with Carl Denson, a brother of appellant, in which Carl was severely cut with a knife by deceased. Carl was taken to the sanitarium to have his wounds dressed; they were severe but proved to be not serious. Appellant was not in town when the fight occurred, but reached there and learned of it about an hour later. He went to…