White v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bastrop. Tried below before Hon. Ed. R. Sinks. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the first degree; penalty, a life term of imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Louis Drisdale, on the 21st day of May, 1897, by shooting him with a pistol. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was indicted for the murder of Louis Drisdale. The first trial resulted in a judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree, with a life penalty attached. A new trial was awarded appellant for some misconduct of the jury, and another trial resulted in the same verdict. From this last verdict he prosecutes this appeal.
Appellant’s first assignment of error is that the verdict of the jury is contrary to the law and the evidence. It appears that the deceased, Louis Drisdale, was killed at the Colorado Schoolhouse, in Bastrop County, on or about the 21st day of May,…
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