Case Name: FOX v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1918-02-20
Citations: 201 S.W. 171
Docket Number: No. 4906
Parties: FOX v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 201
Pages: 171–172

Head Matter:
FOX v. STATE.
(No. 4906.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 20, 1918.)
Criminal Law <§=31159(3) — Appeal—Review —Trial—Jury Question.
Where the evidence as to defendant’s guilt was conflicting, the question was for the jury, and the verdict cannot be disturbed.
Appeal from District Court, Haskell County; Jno. B. Thomas, Judge.
O. P. Eox was convicted of manslaughter, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
E. B. Hendricks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
PRENDERGAST, J.
Appellant was convicted of manslaughter and assessed the lowest punishment.
There are no bills of exception and no complaint of the court's charge. That appellant stabbed and cut deceased with his knife and killed him is an established fact, and not disputed.
The testimony by the state was clearly sufficient to show appellant guilty of manslaughter, if not of murder, and to disprove appellant's claim that he killed deceased in self-defense; while the testimony of appellant, if believed, might have been sufficient to have authorized Ms acquittal. It was a question for the jury, and they solved it against appel lant. Tlie charge of the court was full and apt submitting every issue in appellant's favor which was authorized or raised by the testimony. There is no complaint in any particular to the court's charge. Under the circumstances we are not authorized to disturb the verdict.
The judgment is therefore affirmed.
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