Burris v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The salient features of the case are concisely stated in the opinion, but in order to illustrate further the nature and character of the conspiracy between defendant and his confederates, after the first difficulty between defendant and deceased, we reproduce the following portions of the testimony from the statement of facts. J. H. Maddox, for the State, testified: “I am city marshal of Port Worth, Texas, and was when Waller was killed.
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The salient features of the case are concisely stated in the opinion, but in order to illustrate further the nature and character of the conspiracy between defendant and his confederates, after the first difficulty between defendant and deceased, we reproduce the following portions of the testimony from the statement of facts. J. H. Maddox, for the State, testified: “I am city marshal of Port Worth, Texas, and was when Waller was killed. About twenty minutes before Waller was killed I was coming up Busk street, and when I got to the corner of Busk and Twelfth streets, I heard, to the east of…
1Opinion of the Court
HURT, Presiding Judge.
This is a conviction of murder in the first degree, with the death penalty, for the homicide of Lee Waller.
It appears from the evidence offered by the State in this case, that the deceased was a policeman in the city of Fort Worth; that on the night of the homicide, in the discharge of his duty, he arrested a woman of the town for being on the street in violation of an ordinance of the city which authorized the arrest. Defendant was with her at the time, and interfered, using some abusive epithets towards the officer. After the arrest, it appears that the officer, in…
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