Golin v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Mrs. Sofia Golin, wife of appellant, was murdered, at her home in the city of Houston, on the 31st day of May, 1895. She and appellant were married in 1891, by Justice Schwander. At the time of the marriage, she was a widow and owned property in Harris County valued at fifteen or twenty thousand dollars—appellant was poor, owned no property.
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Mrs. Sofia Golin, wife of appellant, was murdered, at her home in the city of Houston, on the 31st day of May, 1895. She and appellant were married in 1891, by Justice Schwander. At the time of the marriage, she was a widow and owned property in Harris County valued at fifteen or twenty thousand dollars—appellant was poor, owned no property. Justice Schwander testified on the trial that he performed the marriage ceremony; that after the marriage, when he started home, as appellant was escorting him to the gate, he said to him, “Judge, before you came in here I was a poor man, but look at my…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at a life term in the penitentiary; hence this appeal. The evidence introduced on the part of the State was circumstantial, and tended to show that the appellant, on the night of the 30th of May, 1895, assaulted and struck his wife, Sofia Golin, a number of blows with some character of instrument, inflicting wounds upon her from which she died in a few hours. The-proof showed that the parties had been married about four years, and that the decased was possessed of considerable property in her…
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