Akin v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of eight years.

Appellant and Palo Clancy were neighbors, both farmers, living near each other near the town of Anna, in Collin County. On the 16th day of May, 1907, appellant shot_ and killed Clancy. Appellant was a young man living on a farm with his wife, whom he had married but a few months prior to the homicide. She testified in substance that on Saturday, before the killing on Thursday, in the absence of her husband, deceased grossly insulted…