Williams v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. Charles F. Clint. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the first degree; penalty, imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. This is the second appeal in this case. The former appeal was from a conviction for murder in the first degree with the death penalty. See, Williams v. State, 35 Tex. Crim.
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Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. Charles F. Clint. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the first degree; penalty, imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. This is the second appeal in this case. The former appeal was from a conviction for murder in the first degree with the death penalty. See, Williams v. State, 35 Tex. Crim. Rep., 183. It will be seen that this •case is disposed of solely with reference to the questions pertaining to the testimony adduced at the trial relating to defendant’s insanity. As to this matter, the facts are…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for life, and prosecutes this appeal. Appellant is charged with the murder of his wife. The proof shows that defendant and his wife were occupying as a sleeping apartment the upstairs room of a building in Dallas, and that he killed his wife by striking her with an axe or bludgeon. Subsequently he threw her body out of the window, dug a grave or hole, and concealed the body, near the building, where it was subsequently found. The only questions that arise in…
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