Williams v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hunt. Tried below before Hon. E. W. TeshuNE. This appeal is from a conviction for murder of the first degree, with penalty assessed at a life term in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the District Court of Hunt. Tried below before Hon. E. W. TeshuNE. This appeal is from a conviction for murder of the first degree, with penalty assessed at a life term in the penitentiary. The following concise statement of the material facts, testified to by the principal State’s witness, Mrs. Humphreys, wife of the deceased, is taken from the brief of appellant, it being substantially correct: Mrs. Lona Humphreys testified, that she was sleeping at home on the night of the 19th of May with her husband, Alvin Humphreys, in one room, and her children were sleeping in an adjoining…
1Opinion of the Court
SIMKINS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment' assessed at imprisonment for life.
1. Appellant contends, that the court erred in refusing to charge that Mrs. Lona Humphreys was an accomplice to the murder of her husband. The evidence shows that no one was present at the murder of her husband but appellant and Mrs. Humphreys; that after the homicide'Mrs. Humphreys went one-half mile to her brother’s house and told him that two strange men had come into the house and killed bim with the axe. Mrs. Humphreys said she made this statement because she was…
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- Elizando v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1892
- People v. MurrayCalifornia Supreme Court · 1890
- Ward v. WardTexas Supreme Court · 1873
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- Long v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1905
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