Jones v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Harris. Tried below before the Hon. J. K. P. Gillaspie. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, twenty-five years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Harris. Tried below before the Hon. J. K. P. Gillaspie. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, twenty-five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The father oí the deceased testified that he occupied a two-story building, using the lower story for a grocery store, and the upper story ,as his residence; that he was occupying’the upper story the night of the fire, and that he, his wife and two of his children were barely saved from burning, and that they had to make their escape by means of ladders, which neighbors brought…
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the Criminal District Court of Harris County of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at twenty-five years confinement in the penitentiary.
Appellant was indicted for the murder of one Philip Preager. The indictment was in two counts, the second count charging, in substance, that appellant “did then and there unlawfully and fraudulently break and enter a house then and there situated, occupied and controlled by Jacob Preager and while in the perpetration, and in the attempt at the perpetration of burglary in said house, did then and…
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