Aud and Townsend v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
This appeal is from a conviction for murder in the second degree, the punishment assessed against each of the defendants being twenty years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The principal features of the case are concisely but clearly stated in the opinion, and no further statement is necessary.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
The appellants were tried together on a charge of murder, were convicted of murder in the second degree, and each given a term of twenty years in the penitentiary, and from the judgment and sentence of the lower court they prosecute this appeal. On the trial of the ease, the prosecuting attorney, in his speech to the jury, said: “Mr. Carr, you are the only man on the jury who answered that you knew Ella Aud. The country expects that you do your duty;” and the County Attorney, just previous to this, asserted in a most positive manner “that the defendants were guilty, and ought…
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