Seals v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
This appeal is from a conviction for murder, in the first degree, with penalty assessed at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. The parties to this killing were negroes. The deceased’s name was. Will Adkins; he was engaged to Silvia Wood, and they were to have been married on the night of the killing.
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This appeal is from a conviction for murder, in the first degree, with penalty assessed at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. The parties to this killing were negroes. The deceased’s name was. Will Adkins; he was engaged to Silvia Wood, and they were to have been married on the night of the killing. Silvia testified, that appellant, Harrison Seals, was her uncle by marriage, and that she had been living with him five or six years, and he had been “keeping” her most of the time. About a week before the killing, she had told him she was going to marry deceased, and he became very angry and…
1Opinion of the Court
HURT, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, for the killing of one Adkins, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for life. Allen Knight, who served on the jury, was challenged for cause by appellant, the cause assigned being that he was a witness in the case. It appears from the record that the special venire was issued on the 15th day of May, 1895, and on the 22nd day of May, 1895 (the day before the trial of this case), the defendant’s attorney had fourteen of the special venire men summoned as witnesses. The juror, Allen Knight, was…
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- Gunn v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1921