Whiteside v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
CHRISTIAN, Judge.
The offense is murder; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for twenty years.
This is the second appeal, the opinion on former appeal being found in Volume 111, Texas Criminal Reports, at page 116.
Deceased was the wife of appellant. They occupied an upstairs apartment. According to the state’s testimony appellant locked the doors leading from the apartment, attacked his wife with a hand mirror and threatened to kill her. Deceased became so terrorized and frightened that she jumped from an upstairs window to the ground below in order to escape. Her spine was broken…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Buchanan v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1927
- Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1927
- McNeely v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1926
- Terry v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1903
- Shelburne v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1928
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- State v. MyersSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1951
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