Jones v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the unlawful killing of L. E. Richardson, and by the jury given a penalty of five years for murder without malice. Hence this appeal.

The testimony shows that the deceased and his son, Gene Richardson, had a filling station in the town of Waskom, in Harrison County. That this filling station had four gasoline pumps out near the highway, and a drive-in between pumps and the station. Near this station’s driveway was a hedge and some vacant lots belonging to a sister-in-law of appellant’s over which he had control. We conclude from the evidence that…