Schackey v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Washington. Tried below before Hon. Ed. R. Sinks. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second1 degree; penalty, seven years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the District Court of Washington. Tried below before Hon. Ed. R. Sinks. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second1 degree; penalty, seven years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged one Reinhardt Fisher, and the appellant, jointly, with the murder of Henry Kramer on the 1st day of February, 1899. It contained two counts, (1) charging the murder to have been committed by striking deceased on the head and body with some blunt instrument; (2) by striking and knocking deceased down with a stick on a railroad track before an approaching train thereon, with the…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDS OK, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of the murder of Henry Kramer, and his punishment assessed at seven years confinement in the penitentiary.
His first contention is that the witness Hadley was a principal; and second, an accessory. She alone testified directly to appellant’s connection with the homicide. The killing occurred about 11 o’clock at night; on a railroad track near the long bridge at Brenham. On the night of and prior to the homicide, this witness,. Reinhardt Fisher, Will Fletcher, appellant, and others were at the Klondike Saloon. Appellant and deceased, Kramer,…
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