Meyers v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Milam. Tried below before Hon. John R. Henderson. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the second degree; penalty, twenty-five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment in this case charged appellant with the killing of A. II. Jones, on the 14th day of January, 1894, by shooting him with a pistol.
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Appeal from the District Court of Milam. Tried below before Hon. John R. Henderson. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the second degree; penalty, twenty-five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment in this case charged appellant with the killing of A. II. Jones, on the 14th day of January, 1894, by shooting him with a pistol. This is a companion case to Meyers v. State, 37 Texas Criminal Reports, 808, in which this appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of W. A. Binkley, the punishment in that case being assessed at a life term in the…
1Opinion of the Court
HUKT, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of twenty-five years; hence this appeal.
We have read this record very carefully, and have also read the briefs for appellant, and given the same, in connection with the record, a close investigation, and have found but one matter which we deem necessary to discuss at any length.
We axe of opinion that the court did not err in refusing to submit the question of manslaughter to the jury, predicated upon the fact that appellant was at a house of…
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