Meuly v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Webb. Tried below before the Hon. J. C. Russell. The appellant, being convicted in the second degree for the murder of H. Douglas, in Webb county, Texas, on the twenty-ninth day of March, 1886, was awarded a term of ten years in the penitentiary. Antonio B. Ayala was the first witness for the State.
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Appeal from the District Court of Webb. Tried below before the Hon. J. C. Russell. The appellant, being convicted in the second degree for the murder of H. Douglas, in Webb county, Texas, on the twenty-ninth day of March, 1886, was awarded a term of ten years in the penitentiary. Antonio B. Ayala was the first witness for the State. He testifies that he had resided in the city of Laredo, Webb county, Texas, since 1875. He knew H. Douglas, who, about three years prior to this trial, died in Orfila’s saloon, Laredo, from the effects of a pistol shot fired by the defendant. The fatal shot was…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
This voluminous record contains fourteen bills of exception reserved by defendant to rulings of the court at the trial, and twenty-four assignments of error .submitted on this appeal as grounds for reversal of the judgment. Our conclusion as to the course necessary to be taken in the disposition of the case on this appeal renders it unnecessary to discuss but one or. more of these supposed errors, as *301they are of a character not likely to arise on another trial in the-court below. Some of them become important in view of another trial, and to such alone we propose to…
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