Case Name: B. F. Major v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1916-05-03
Citations: 79 Tex. Crim. 460
Docket Number: No. 4058
Parties: B. F. Major v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 79
Pages: 460–461

Head Matter:
B. F. Major v. The State.
No. 4058.
Decided May 3, 1916.
1. —Manslaughter—Sufficiency of the Evidence.
Where, upon trial of murder and a conviction of manslaughter, the evidence sustained the conviction, there was no reversible error.
2. —Same—Argument of Counsel — Bill of Exceptions.
Where the bill of exceptions showed the refusal of the court to submit a requested charge to disregard a certain argument of State’s counsel that it was on the ground that said argument was in reply to the arguments of defendant’s attorneys, there was no reversible error.
Appeal from the District Court of Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. Ben M. Terrell.
Appeal from a conviction of manslaughter; penalty, three years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the case.
No brief on file for appellant.
C. C. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of manslaughter and his punishment assessed at three years in the penitentiary.
There are but two questions raised. One is, appellant claims the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict. We have carefully read the testimony and the record, and, in our opinion, the evidence was amply sufficient not only to sustain the verdict of manslaughter, but to have sustained a verdict of murder. We see no necessity of reciting the testimony for the purpose of this case or as a precedent for any other.
The other question is to the refusal of the court to give his special charge to disregard a certain argument of the x county attorney. The court refused to give the charge, expressly stating that the remarks of the county attorney were in reply to appellant's attorney. As explained above, in the refusal of the charge itself and of appellant's bill on the subject, no error is presented.
The judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.