Stanley v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of San Jacinto. Tried below before Hon. L. B. Hightower, Appeal from a conviction for murder in the second degree; penalty, ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Jack Lawson, on the 8th of July, 1897, by shooting him with a gun. There is no statement of facts in the record.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted for murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of ten years; hence this appeal.
The record does not contain a statement of the facts. A bill of exceptions was reserved to the action of the court permitting Tom Fitze te -testify against appellant. As the ground for this objection, it is stated that said Fitze was convicted during that term of the court in two cases, each being a felony; that these convictions occurred about eight days before he was permitted to testify against appellant, and no…
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