Brown v. King
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Clay County. Tried below before 1 Hon. A. H. Carrigan. ■
1Opinion of the Court
COHNEB, Chief Justice.
This appeal is from a judgment in appellee’s favor against the appellant, B. J. Brown, as sheriff of Clay County, and against W. H. Allen and Hugh Cozart, his deputies, for the sum of $2,000 as damages on. account of gunshot wounds inflicted by said deputies during an attempt to arrest appellee for an alleged breach of the peace, and for an alleged violation of the law in unlawfully carrying a pistol in the Buffalo Springs community of Clay County during the night of the 23d day of December, 1904.
The vital question presented on this appeal is whether appellant, who was a…
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