Renfro v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appellant was charged by the indictment with the murder of M. M. Williams on the 3d day of February, 1899, by shooting him with a pistol. The facts leading up to, and attendant upon, the killing may be briefly summed up as follows: Defendant, Renfro, had been paying his attentions to Miss Hora Williams, a daughter of deceased, for about one and a half years prior to the filing of a complaint ugainst him by one.
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Appellant was charged by the indictment with the murder of M. M. Williams on the 3d day of February, 1899, by shooting him with a pistol. The facts leading up to, and attendant upon, the killing may be briefly summed up as follows: Defendant, Renfro, had been paying his attentions to Miss Hora Williams, a daughter of deceased, for about one and a half years prior to the filing of a complaint ugainst him by one. Andy Woodson, about the month of May or June 1898, charging him with slandering Hora Williams by stating that he, defendant, had repeatedly had carnal intercourse with the said Hora.…
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at death.
Bill of exceptions number 1 complains of the failure of the court to quash the special venire, and the return of the officer thereon, “for the reason that there was no valid and legal order made and entered directing said venire, or describing same, or commanding that any particular number of men be summoned to attend the court at any particular day; and because the return of said venire did not show that such veniremen as purported to have been summoned were legally summoned, and did not…
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