Parr v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Fayette. Tried below before Hon. H. Tiechmuller. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the second degree; penalty, five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged defendant with the murder of West Grafting-ton, in Fayette County, on the 1st of September, 1895, by shooting him with a gun.
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Appeal from the District Court of Fayette. Tried below before Hon. H. Tiechmuller. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the second degree; penalty, five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged defendant with the murder of West Grafting-ton, in Fayette County, on the 1st of September, 1895, by shooting him with a gun. On Sunday, September 1st, 1895, two negroes were playing cards, about 11 or 12 o’clock, in a gambling room, back of Hugh Little’s saloon, in the town of Winchester. Defendant (J. H. Parr), who was a white man, was present, looking at the game. He and the…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and given five years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. A number of exceptions were reserved by the appellant during the trial of the case. However, we will notice only two of them. One is to the testimony of Jim Washington, a witness for the State, who testified that Henry Parr, a son of the defendant, went to the place when the deceased fell, after receiving a mortal wound, about 100 feet distant from the place of the shooting, immediately after the shooting, and there said, apart from the defendant, and…
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