Ma Riojas v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
This appeal is from a conviction for murder in the second degree, the punishment being assessed at ten years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. Defendant was indicted for the murder of R. San Miguel, by choking him with a sash, in Atascosa County, on the 20th day of December, 1886. The testimony shows that deceased started from his home, in a wagon drawn by two mules, for San Antonio, to sell a coop of chickens and turkeys which he had in the wagon.
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This appeal is from a conviction for murder in the second degree, the punishment being assessed at ten years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. Defendant was indicted for the murder of R. San Miguel, by choking him with a sash, in Atascosa County, on the 20th day of December, 1886. The testimony shows that deceased started from his home, in a wagon drawn by two mules, for San Antonio, to sell a coop of chickens and turkeys which he had in the wagon. The mules ■ he was working belonged to, and had been borrowed from defendant. Deceased re-shod defendant’s horse that afternoon, and the coop of…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and given ten years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. Appellant presents to this court a bill of exceptions to the admission of certain evidence, signed and approved by the judge and filed after the expiration of the term. Accompanying the bill is the following explanation by the judge: “This bill of exceptions was handed me within the time prescribed by law, and during the term of court at which the case was tried, but was in some manner misplaced, and it is a fact that the exception to the admission of…
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