Bostick v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Colorado. Tried below before the Hon. Everett Lewis. The indictment charged that the appellant, on November 23, 1879, did willfully, feloniously and maliciously set fire to a certain store-house and dwelling, the property of William Munch. This is the second appeal from convictions which concurred in assessing a term of ten years in the penitentiary as the punishment.
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Appeal from the District Court of Colorado. Tried below before the Hon. Everett Lewis. The indictment charged that the appellant, on November 23, 1879, did willfully, feloniously and maliciously set fire to a certain store-house and dwelling, the property of William Munch. This is the second appeal from convictions which concurred in assessing a term of ten years in the penitentiary as the punishment. In volume 10 of these Reports, at page 705, the report of the case on the former appeal will be found. The trial which resulted in the present appeal was had at the Fall term, 1881, of the…
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, P. J.
This is a second appeal from a judgment of conviction in this case, the punishment being assessed each time at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of ten years. See Bostick v. State, 10 Texas Ct. App. 705. As in the former appeal so in this, the statement of facts shows that the evidence of the State’s witness Foster “was the strongest, most pertinent and pointed evidence adduced against the defendant upon the trial.” In the only bill of exceptions appearing in the record we find, “ that the witnesses were, on motion of the district attorney, placed under the rule, and after the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wafford v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1876