Duncan v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Maverick. Tried below before Hon. Winchester Kelso. The opinion summarizes the facts of the case, but as the evidence is circumstantial and the case one of importance and more than usually interesting the Reporter considers it proper to give the evidence in full as it is set forth in the record. It is as follows: Tom Hawkins testified as follows, to-wit: I live in San Saba County, Texas.
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Appeal from the District Court of Maverick. Tried below before Hon. Winchester Kelso. The opinion summarizes the facts of the case, but as the evidence is circumstantial and the case one of importance and more than usually interesting the Reporter considers it proper to give the evidence in full as it is set forth in the record. It is as follows: Tom Hawkins testified as follows, to-wit: I live in San Saba County, Texas. Have lived there since 1874. I knew the Williamson family who lived in San Saba County, Texas. This family lived within four hundred or five hundred yards of where I lived in…
1Opinion of the Court
WHITE, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted in Maverick County on the indictment charging him with the murder of one Levonia Homes, the said murder being alleged to have been committed on or about the 24th of February, 1889. There were three counts in the indictmenb—one charging a murder by striking her with a gun, another by striking her with some blunt instrument or weapon to the grand jurors unknown, and the last by assaulting her in some way and manner and by some means and with weapons to the grand jurors unknown. The defendant was found guilty of murder in the…
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