Taggart v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a conviction for murder, with punishment assessed at confinement in the State penitentiary for five years.

The State’s case was one of circumstantial evidence.

Appellant was first charged by complaint in the justice court with the murder. He was arrested and carried before the justice of the peace sitting as a magistrate in an examining court. Upon that hearing and after the complaint had been first read to him, appellant was warned by State’s counsel at the direction of the magistrate (a) that he could make a voluntary statement relative to the accusation if he so…