Jackson v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

Appellant was indicted in the District Court of Polk County on a charge of the murder of one Gerdie Jackson. He was tried on December 14, 1908, and convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for life.

1. As the record comes to us there is no statement of facts, and it must, of course, be assumed that the proof justified and sustained the verdict and judgment of conviction, There is no complaint in the motion for new trial of the charge of the court, nor upon an examination of same does it seem that it is subject to any…