Bohannon v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Austin. Tried below before the Hon. L. W. Moore. At the April term, 1882, of the District Court of Fort Bend county the grand jury presented an indictment against F. W. Bohannon, the present appellant, charging that, on or about December 7, 1881, in the said county of Fort Bend, he did “with malice aforethought kill J. L. Knox, by shooting him with a gun.”
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Appeal from the District Court of Austin. Tried below before the Hon. L. W. Moore. At the April term, 1882, of the District Court of Fort Bend county the grand jury presented an indictment against F. W. Bohannon, the present appellant, charging that, on or about December 7, 1881, in the said county of Fort Bend, he did “with malice aforethought kill J. L. Knox, by shooting him with a gun.” At a subsequent day of the same term the defendant filed an application for a change of venue, alleging that by reason of prejudice and a dangerous combination against him in Fort Bend county he could not…
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
Defendant has been convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for life, upon an indictment of which the charging portion reads as follows: “That F. W. Bohannon, on or about the seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, in the county of Fort Bend and State of Texas, did then and there with malice aforethought kill J. L. Knox, by shooting him with a gun; contrary to law and against the peace and dignity of the State.”
It is assigned as error by the defendant that the court erred in overruling…
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