Wilganowski v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Falls. Tried below before the" lion. Kichard I. Munroe. Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case. On question of corpus delicti: Follis v. State, 51 Texas Crim. Kep., 186, and cases cited in opinion. On question of voluntary confession: Briscoe v. State, 11 S. W. Bep., 113; Cain v. State, 18 Texas, 387; Simon v. State, 37 Miss., 388; 13 Cyc., 639; Branch’s Crim.
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Appeal from the District Court of Falls. Tried below before the" lion. Kichard I. Munroe. Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case. On question of corpus delicti: Follis v. State, 51 Texas Crim. Kep., 186, and cases cited in opinion. On question of voluntary confession: Briscoe v. State, 11 S. W. Bep., 113; Cain v. State, 18 Texas, 387; Simon v. State, 37 Miss., 388; 13 Cyc., 639; Branch’s Crim. Law, 53.
1Opinion of the Court
HABPEB, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of the murder of her husband, and her punishment assessed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for life.
We will not take up the contentions of appellant in the order presented in the bills of exception and in the motion for a new trial, but instead in the order presented in the able and exhaustive brief filed by appellant’s counsel.
The first proposition, under the first three assignments, is that before a person can be convicted of a homicide the body of the person charged to have been killed, or portions thereof, must be sufficiently identified to…
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- People v. . PalmerNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1908
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