Holland v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
• Appeal from the District Court of Bell. Tried below before the Hon. John M. Furman. Appeal from a conviction of swindling; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
—On a plea of guilty appellant’s punishment was assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary on a charge of swindling.
After the verdict and judgment were entered up, but before the adjournment of the term, an affidavit in proper and legal form was filed, sworn to by a credible witness, as far as this record shows, and presented by the counsel employed by the relatives of appellant to the district judge, in which affidavit the fact is suggested that affiant was crazy at the time of filling same. Accompanying the affidavit is a certified copy of the decree of the county…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Guagando v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1874
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