Goode v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
This appeal is from a judgment of conviction for assault with intent to murder, wherein the punishment was assessed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of three years. The testimony showed, that Mrs. Nelson, the injured party, occupied two tents, one of which was called by the witnesses the big tent and the other the little tent, both fronting south, but the little tent standing from two to four feet from and to the rear of the big tent.
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This appeal is from a judgment of conviction for assault with intent to murder, wherein the punishment was assessed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of three years. The testimony showed, that Mrs. Nelson, the injured party, occupied two tents, one of which was called by the witnesses the big tent and the other the little tent, both fronting south, but the little tent standing from two to four feet from and to the rear of the big tent. The testimony introduced by the State tended to show, that on the day of theylifficulty the defendant and one Bass came to the tent intoxicated,…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
This appeal is prosecuted from a conviction of assault with intent to murder. As corroborative of his testimony before the jury, the witness Romans was permitted to testify, that lie had made similar statements to the grand jury in regard to the same matter. Defendant objected, because “ the witness could not be corroborated by -his own testimony as to what he testified before the grand jury.” Romans was a competent witness, and could as legally detail his evidence given before the grand jury as any member of -that body. If the grand jurors were authorized to testify to such…
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