Bowden v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal Court of the city of Paris. Tried below before the Hon. James Q. Chenowith. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, J.
This case presents, as its leading feature, rather an anomalous question.
It appears that, at the'March term, 1872, of the district court of Lamar county, appellant and one Harry Arnold were jointly indicted for burglary.
E. Peterson, who was at that time the district attorney of that district, believing that Harry Arnold was the guilty party, and that a case could not be made out against him (Arnold) without the evidence of his co-defendant Bowden, after a consultation with the district judge then presiding, and with his entire concurrence, made an agreement with the defendant Bowden that he…
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