Taylor v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Harrison. Tried below before the Hon. J. B. Williamson. The opinion of the court, in its brief review of the evidence, states it as clearly and as fully as it appears in the statement of facts, embodied in the transcript. hTo person who saw the body of the deceased had known Morgan Evans in his lifetime. His father and brother were witnesses, but they did not see the body.
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Appeal from Harrison. Tried below before the Hon. J. B. Williamson. The opinion of the court, in its brief review of the evidence, states it as clearly and as fully as it appears in the statement of facts, embodied in the transcript. hTo person who saw the body of the deceased had known Morgan Evans in his lifetime. His father and brother were witnesses, but they did not see the body. The killing was done with an ax, which was found and identified, and traced to the possession of the accused, who was a freedman, and whose object appears to have been to possess himself of the property of the…
1Opinion of the CourtOgden, J.
The appellant in this case was indicted in the district court for the murder of Morgan Evans, and at the June term, 1871, was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree, and has brought the case to this court for revision by an appeal. The assignment of errors and the record in the case present but two or three questions which are deemed of sufficient import*109anee to require special notice in the decision of this case,, as the others have heretofore been decided by this court, or are dependent upon the more important ones we now propose to notice.
It appears from the pleadings, that at a…
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