Neill v. State

The defendant, Thomas Neill, was charged by information filed in the district court of Comanche county with the crime of murder, was tried, convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and pursuant to the verdict of the jury was sentenced to serve ten years’ imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, and has appealed.

Three propositions are presented by the appeal: First, the verdict and the judgment are not sustained by the evidence and are contrary to the law; second, the defendant was prevented from having a fair trial for the reason that the special prosecutor conducted the prosecu tion…