Underwood v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Conviction for murder; punishment, death.. Appellant plead guilty. Substantially the only contention is that the witnesses who testified against appellant upon this trial were convicts ; that they were serving out their sentences in prison and had not been pardoned, and that they were incompetent to testify for that reason. Appellant admits that the alleged murder was committed on a prison farm, and he further admits that since the commission of this offense the State legislature has passed a law under which the testimony of convicts confined in the State penitentiary might…
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