Lander v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Cass. Alfred R. Lander was put upon his trial for the murder of Eli Ussery. It appeared in evidence that there had been ill feeling and threats of long standing between the prisoner and the deceased. They lived in the same neighborhood, a few miles from the town of Jefferson; and in going and returning travelled the same road two or three miles.
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Appeal from Cass. Alfred R. Lander was put upon his trial for the murder of Eli Ussery. It appeared in evidence that there had been ill feeling and threats of long standing between the prisoner and the deceased. They lived in the same neighborhood, a few miles from the town of Jefferson; and in going and returning travelled the same road two or three miles. They went to town on the morning of the killing, both armed—the prisoner with holster pistols, and the deceased with a double barrelled shot gun. Same day the deceased was heard to make violent threats against the life of the prisoner,…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
To reverse the, judgment of conviction it is urged that the Court erroneously excluded evidence proposed1 by the accused ; and also that there is error in the charge of the Court.
The attorney for the State had asked a witness how the accused was “ equipped ” as he rode into Jefferson with the witness on the morning of the day of the killing. To which the witness answered that “ he had pistols tied to his saddle,” and the defence thereupon proposed to prove by the witness that the accused “ uttered no hostile expressions about the deceased and spoke of no difficulty with any onewhich, upon…
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