Williams v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The opinion states the case. The plea of former jeopardy was as follows: And now comes the defendant in the above entitled and numbered cause, and alleging and averring that he can not be further legally prosecuted for the offense herein charged against him, says and shows to the court that he has already once before been jut in jeopardy for said offense.
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The opinion states the case. The plea of former jeopardy was as follows: And now comes the defendant in the above entitled and numbered cause, and alleging and averring that he can not be further legally prosecuted for the offense herein charged against him, says and shows to the court that he has already once before been jut in jeopardy for said offense. That heretofore, to wit, on the 25th day of October, 1907, in this court, the said court then and there having jurisdiction of said case, he was the accused who was in due form of law then and there upon his trial upon a pending information…
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
This appeal is prosecuted from a conviction had in the County Court of Brazos County, on July 28, 1908, finding appellant guilty of carrying on and about his saddle a pistol.
When this case was called appellant interposed a plea of former jeopardy, in which he set up that on the 27th day of July preceding, on a charge against him of carrying on and about his person a pistol, he had been acquitted; that the transaction out of which the two charges grew was identical, and that the offense was the same, and that the transaction was the same, and that having been acquitted, he ought…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Hill v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1907
- Prewitt v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1906
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