Mitchell v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Hood. Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Hood. During the March term, 1874, of the District Court of Hood county, on 28th March, and after the grand jury had been discharged, K. Mitchell and others, called the Mitchell party, pursued from the county seat and assaulted Isaac Truitt and Ms two brothers, and succeeded in killing two of the Truitt brothers.
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Appeal from Hood. Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Hood. During the March term, 1874, of the District Court of Hood county, on 28th March, and after the grand jury had been discharged, K. Mitchell and others, called the Mitchell party, pursued from the county seat and assaulted Isaac Truitt and Ms two brothers, and succeeded in killing two of the Truitt brothers. The district judge ordered the reassembling of the grand jury, and on 31st March they presented an indictment against Kelson Mitchell, W. J. Owens, William Mitchell, M. Graves, D. A. Shaw, and Jefferson Mitchell, for.the murder of…
1Opinion of the Court
Mooke, Associate Justice.
Most of the questions presented for our consideration by this record have been fully examined and determined by the court in the case of Shaw v. The State, which was decided at an earlier day of the ■present term. It is unnecessary, therefore, for us to discuss them again. There are, however, a few points presented in this case, which were not in that case, upon which it is proper that we shall express our views.
1. It is said the court erred in refusing to change the venue. If appellant has the slightest grounds for complaint of the action of the court on this account…
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