Sanders v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Nacogdoches. Tried below before the Hon. James I. Perkins. Appeal from a conviction of manslaughter; penalty, two years confinement in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
Appellant, a negro woman, was convicted of manslaughter in the District Court of Nacogdoches County on indictment charging her with the murder of one Charley Slay, a white man, at her home in Nacogdoches, on the 17th day of July, 1907.
It was conceded on the trial and incontestably shown by the evidence that the defendant did not herself shoot the deceased, but the case was tried and the substantial issue submitted to the jury was the question of conspiracy between appellant and her brother, Roy, who was alleged to have fired the fatal shot that resulted in the death of Slay.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Lyles v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1874
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