Reddick v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Brazos. Tried below before Hon. A. C. Breitz, Special Judge. Appellant was convicted in the court below of the rape of one Fannie Polazo, with his punishment assessed at death. Fannie Polazo, the prosecutrix, testified in substance, through an interpreter, she being an Italian woman and unable to speak English, that her husband was in the lunatic aslyum, at Austin, and had been there several years.
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Appeal from the District Court of Brazos. Tried below before Hon. A. C. Breitz, Special Judge. Appellant was convicted in the court below of the rape of one Fannie Polazo, with his punishment assessed at death. Fannie Polazo, the prosecutrix, testified in substance, through an interpreter, she being an Italian woman and unable to speak English, that her husband was in the lunatic aslyum, at Austin, and had been there several years. That she and her children lived upon a place which she owned, about two and one-half miles from the city of Bryan. That at 3 o’clock, by her clock, a time piece,…
1Opinion of the Court
HURT, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of rape, and his punishment assessed at death, and he prosecutes this appeal. Upon the trial, over the objection of the appellant, the State ivas permitted to
ove the following facts, by T. C. Nunn, sheriff of Brazos County: That on Monday, after the alleged rape of Fannie Polazo, and after defendant had been arrested for said offense, he placed defendant and eight other negroes in a line in the jail of Brazos County, and then brought Charley Polazo into said jail, and that he identified and pointed out defendant as the man who had committed the…
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