Johnson v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. W. Y. McFarland. The appellant was indicted at the Spring Term, 1862, of the District Court of McLennan county for the murder of Demetrius Hays. The offence was charged to have been committed on the 21st day of December, 1861. After various orders and continuances, the case came to trial at the Fall Term, 1864, when the defendant pleaded not guilty.
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Appeal from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. W. Y. McFarland. The appellant was indicted at the Spring Term, 1862, of the District Court of McLennan county for the murder of Demetrius Hays. The offence was charged to have been committed on the 21st day of December, 1861. After various orders and continuances, the case came to trial at the Fall Term, 1864, when the defendant pleaded not guilty. In the organization of the petit jury, one of the venire, A. G. Bondurant, on his preliminary examination, stated that he had been in the State of Texas for over one year, but that he was a refugee…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
We have given to the questions in the record now before us, that careful and patient consideration which the nature of the case demands, but after the strictest scrutiny, find no error to justify the reversal of the judgment. Most, if not all of the assignments of error worthy of consideration have, in fact, been passed upon and settled, adversely to the appellant, in cases heretofore before this court. In disposing of the questions now presented, it is therefore scarcely necessary for us to do more than to refer to our former decisions.
In responding to the errors assigned upon which we feel…
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