Lynch v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Fannin. Tried below before the Hon. D. H. Scott. This conviction was in the second degree for the murder of A. J. Guess, in Fannin County, on the twenty-fifth day of April, 1887. A term of seven years in the penitentiary was the penalty assessed against the appellant. Mrs. S. J. Guess was the first witness for the State.
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Appeal from the District Court of Fannin. Tried below before the Hon. D. H. Scott. This conviction was in the second degree for the murder of A. J. Guess, in Fannin County, on the twenty-fifth day of April, 1887. A term of seven years in the penitentiary was the penalty assessed against the appellant. Mrs. S. J. Guess was the first witness for the State. She testified that she was the widow of A. J. Guess, who died in Fannin county, Texas, on the evening of April 25, 1887, from the effects of a gunshot wound inflicted by the defendant. The shooting occurred at about six o’clock p. m. at a…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
This appeal is from a judgment of conviction for murder of the second degree for the killing of one A. J. Guess, whose wife was a niece of this appellant. *361There are several bills of exceptions as well as assignments of error presented in the record, which attack certain rulings of the trial court upon questions of evidence and certain portions of the charge given the jury, as also the refusal to give certain requested instructions asked for defendant. We propose to notice only such matters complained of as are considered of moment on this appeal.
I. Defendant complains…
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