Blalock v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Mollie Blalock, on the 8th day of March, 1898, by shooting her with a gun. Mollie Blalock was the wife of appellant. The important facts, as shown by the evidence adduced at the trial, are fully stated in the opinion, and no further statement of them is necessary.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of fifteen years; hence this appeal.
Appellant complains that the court failed to give a charge on negligent homicide, and he assigns this as reversible error. The court did give a charge on murder in both degrees, manslaughter, and accidental homicide; and we think these charges of the court covered every phase of the case made by the testimony. This was a case of a husband killing his wife in a scuffle over a gun under circumstances which…
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