Legal Opinion
Davis v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided December 4, 1957No. 29246Published
1Opinion of the Court
308 S.W.2d 880 (1957)
George M. DAVIS, Appellant,
v.
The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 29246.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
December 4, 1957.
Rehearing Denied January 15, 1958.
Charles F. Mitchell, Clyde W. Woody, Houston, for appellant.
Drew Bacon, Dist. Atty., Newton, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.
WOODLEY, Judge.
The offense is murder; the punishment, life.
The deceased, Fred Bourghs, lived in a three room house in the northern part of Sabine County, his nearest neighbor's home being about a mile away. Mr. Bourghs was about 80 years old.
On August 25, 1954, the bloody…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Haley v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Watts v. IndianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Fikes v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Ward v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Davis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1957
11 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.