O'Connor v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bosque. Tried below before Hon. J. M. Hall. The indictment charged the appellant with the murder of John Dee, in Bosque County, Texas, on the 15th day of May, 1871. The trial resulted in his conviction in the first degree, and a life term in the penitentiary was the penalty assessed. The syallabus and opinion summarize the substance of the testimony upon which all of the rulings save that announced in the last head note are predicated.
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Appeal from the District Court of Bosque. Tried below before Hon. J. M. Hall. The indictment charged the appellant with the murder of John Dee, in Bosque County, Texas, on the 15th day of May, 1871. The trial resulted in his conviction in the first degree, and a life term in the penitentiary was the penalty assessed. The syallabus and opinion summarize the substance of the testimony upon which all of the rulings save that announced in the last head note are predicated. As bearing upon the grade of homicide found by the jury, it is sufficient for the purposes of this report to note that the…
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
This conviction is for murder in the first degree, the penalty assessed being confinement for life in the penitentiary.
John Dee was the name of the deceased, and he was killed in Bosque County, in May, 1871. A few days after he was killed the defendant was arrested charged with the murder, and there is some evidence tending to show that the defendant was indicted for said murder, and that in 1872 he was placed upon trial upon said indictment in the District Court of Bosque County, said trial resulting in a disagreement and discharge of the jury without a verdict having been…
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