Weaver v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hill. Tried below before Hon. W. Poindexter. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree; penalty, imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Charley Martin, on the 12th day of April, 1899, by shooting him with a pistol. The opinion states the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for life.
The following summary of the facts adduced upon the trial is copied from appellant’s brief: “Defendant, Jesse Weaver, and deceased, Charlie Martin, were brothers-in-law, having married sisters. Weaver married several years prior to the time that Martin married his wife’s sister: At the time of the killing defendant lived about two and one-half miles from where deceased was then living. Martin was killed about dark on April 12, 1899, at a spring some 400…
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