Bowers v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Coleman. Tried below before Hon. B. F. Bose, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction of slander; penalty, a fine of $500 and twelve months imprisonment in the county jail. The information charged appellant with the slander of Willie Conner, an unmarried female, by saying, in the presence of W. C. Erwin and divers others, that he, defendant, had had illicit sexual intercourse with said Willie Conner.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of slander, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $500 and twelve months confinement in the county jail.
By bills of exception numbers 1 and 2 appellant calls in question the action of the court permitting the State to substitute the lost complaint or affidavit on which the information. was filed, and the information. It appears that when the State was substituting said lost papers appellant desired to interpose an objection to the same and to be heard by evidence on his contest. This the court refused, remarking that he could not intervene or…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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