Court Opinion

ID: 3969162
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 10:28:14.005894+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:22:26.503814
License: Public Domain

This is the second appeal of this case. On the trial from which this appeal results appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.
The opinion of the court on the first appeal will be found in Casey v. State, 54 Tex.Crim. Rep.. On the trial from which that appeal resulted the court charged on manslaughter. In the opinion of the court by Judge Davidson it was distinctly held, under the facts of the case, that the issue of manslaughter arose. Of that we think there can be no doubt. On the last trial the court declined on substantially the same evidence to submit the issue of manslaughter at all, and of this complaint was made in the court below, and is here urged as ground for reversal. This contention must be sustained.
The other matters urged as grounds of reversal are, we think, without merit.
For the error pointed out the judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
McCord, Judge, not sitting.