Stephens v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bexar. Tried below before the Honorable- W. W. Walling. Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, death. On question of the insufficiency of the evidence and assessing death punishment: Williams v. State, 174 S. W. Rep., 1042.
1Opinion
ON REHEARING.
December 20, 1922.
HAWKINS, Judge.
Because the motion for rehearing is based largely on the contention that we should not permit a death penalty verdict to stand under the facts of this case we think it proper to set out the evidence more in detail than was done in our original opinion.
Appellant and deceased were both residents of the city of San Antonio. Deceased, with his family, resided i'n a house which was situated about fifty feet from a lot belonging to appellant, and upon which there was under construction a dwelling house. About a week antecedent to the homicide appellant…
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