Wusnig v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from "Comal. Tried below before tbe Hon. G. H. Noonan. The appellant was indicted in November, 1869, and tried in May; 1870, for tbe murder of Henry Lobl, a youth about seventeen years of age. The verdict was manslaughter, with two years in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from "Comal. Tried below before tbe Hon. G. H. Noonan. The appellant was indicted in November, 1869, and tried in May; 1870, for tbe murder of Henry Lobl, a youth about seventeen years of age. The verdict was manslaughter, with two years in the penitentiary. It seems that the deceased with a younger brother and a sister were laboring in a field when the defendant,.then about twelve years of age, who bad been gunning, came to where they were, and for an hour or more amused himself at play; after which he got over tbe fence as though going away, but concealed himself in tbe bushes and…
1Opinion of the CourtOgden, J.
The appellant in this ease was indicted for murder, and at the Spring term, 1870, of the district court was tried and convicted of manslaughter. On the trial below the defendant filed a plea of infancy, setting up the fact that at the time of the alleged commission of the offense charged he was under the age of thirteen years, and therefore not personally responsible to the law for his acts. It has long been the intent and policy of the law to protect the rights of infants in their person and property, during their mental and physical weakness; and it has been universally held that infants…
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