McDougal v. State

MORROW, Judge.

Appellant is under sentence of twelve years confinement in the penitentiary for the offense of murder.

He shot James E. Vickery with a shotgun and killed him, and claims to have acted- in his own self-defense. The evidence relied upon to support this defense comes mainly from the appellant and his wife. Deceased was a merchant at Lindale, and brought an attachment suit against appellant on a small account, and on the day of the homicide' an officer went to the home of appellant, some distance in the country, and levied the writ of attachment upon a horse which appellant claimed…