Harris v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Montague. Tried below before the Hon. J. A. Carroll. This record discloses a trial and conviction for the rare and revolting crime of fratricide, instigated, as it appears, by the father of the assassin and his victim.
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Appeal from the District Court of Montague. Tried below before the Hon. J. A. Carroll. This record discloses a trial and conviction for the rare and revolting crime of fratricide, instigated, as it appears, by the father of the assassin and his victim. M. B. Y. Shockley, for the State, testified that he knew the defendant, Charley Harris, and also John Harris, the defendant’s brother, who, on the morning of January 17, 1878, was killed in Montague County, Texas, at the residence of the deceased, the defendant, and their father. Witness lived about two and a half miles distant, and saw the…
1Opinion of the CourtEctor, P. J.
The defendant in this case was indicted, in the District Court of Montague County, for the murder of John Harris. He was tried at the October term, 1878, of said court, convicted of murder in the first degree, and has prosecuted his appeal to this court. No objection was raised in the court below to the sufficiency of the indictment. The indictment is a good one, has all the requisites prescribed by the statute, and follows the common-law precedents of an indictment for murder.
*106The first question which we propose to consider is presented in defendant’s first bill of exceptions. A writ of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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