Felder v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Travis. Tried below before the Hon. A. S. Walker. The appellant in this case was convicted in the second degree for the murder of Sam Persons, a colored man, in the city of Austin, Travis county, Texas, on the twenty-fifth day of November, 1885. A term of twenty-five years in the penitentiary was the penalty assessed. Charles Alexander was the first witness for the State.
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Appeal from the District Court of Travis. Tried below before the Hon. A. S. Walker. The appellant in this case was convicted in the second degree for the murder of Sam Persons, a colored man, in the city of Austin, Travis county, Texas, on the twenty-fifth day of November, 1885. A term of twenty-five years in the penitentiary was the penalty assessed. Charles Alexander was the first witness for the State. He testified that he met the defendant, for the first time, on the night of November 25, 1885, in the “Gold Room Saloon,” on Congress avenue, in the city of Austin, which saloon was kept b"…
1Opinion of the Court
Hurt, Judge.
I. Upon the trial below, the State, over objection thereto by appellant, was permitted to introduce the following testimony: “When you reached the place where the shooting occurred, did any one say who had done the shooting?” "Yes; some one in the crowd pointed out Doctor Felder, and said: ‘ There is the man who did the shooting.’ I had just met Doctor Felder walking leisurely down the street.” Other testimony shows that the point at which appellant was met “was about the corner of Kopperl’s book store,” a building situated two doors from that in which the homicide was committed,…
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