Legal Opinion

Mays v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided November 11, 1896No. 1458PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of Falls. Tried below before Hon. S. R. Scott. Appeal from a conviction for robbery; penalty, ten years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. There is no statement of facts in the record.

1Opinion of the Court

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of robbery, and given

ten years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. There is no statement of facts in the record, and but one bill of exceptions, reserved to the action of the court in overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial. This motion for a new trial ivas predicated upon the allegation that one of the jurors who tried the case, to-wit: O. R. Blackmon, was-not a householder; that he answered on his voir dire that he was; and that appellant did not know the contrary, and by the use of reasonable diligence could not have ascertained…

2Cited by12 opinions

  1. Ogle v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1901
  2. Harrold v. Territory of OklahomaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1909
  3. Squyres v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1922
  4. Whittle v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1902
  5. Robertus v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1931

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