Hart v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hunt. Tried below before the Hon. G. J. Clark. • On Saturday, the ninth day of December, 1882, Doctor W. R. Skinner, a practicing physician and a resident of Hunt county, was called from his .home to attend a patient who lived a few miles distant. Late the same evening he returned to his home, bearing on his person several gun shot wounds, which he said he had received while crossing a bridge on his homeward way.
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Appeal from the District Court of Hunt. Tried below before the Hon. G. J. Clark. • On Saturday, the ninth day of December, 1882, Doctor W. R. Skinner, a practicing physician and a resident of Hunt county, was called from his .home to attend a patient who lived a few miles distant. Late the same evening he returned to his home, bearing on his person several gun shot wounds, which he said he had received while crossing a bridge on his homeward way. These wounds were not immediately fatal, but, according to the medical testimony, they caused pysemia or blood poisoning, and thereby, on the…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
A challenge was made to the array of grand jurors who presented the bill of indictment in this cause, because the record failed to show that they had been drawn and selected by jury commissioners duly and legally appointed at a previous term of the court, in conformity with the provisions of the statute. (Code Crim. Proc., Arts. 352 to 361 inclusive.) On a demurrer to this challenge filed by the district attorney, the court, over objection of defendant, heard testimony establishing that in fact the commissioners were selected and qualified as required by law, and that…
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