Baum v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Erath. Tried below before the Hon. W. J. Oxford. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, thirty-seven years and six months imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion
Olí ItEHEARIHG.
December 8, 1910.
COBB, Special Judge.
The State’s motion for rehearing invites a review of many of the cases wherein art. 755, Code Crim. Proc., has received or been denied application. The article as hero involved may be paraphrased thus: A party may prove the prior contrary statement of a witness in impeachment of his testimony when he testifies to a fact injurious to the cause of such party. No opinion of this court has attempted an analysis or definition of the phrase “a fact injurious to his cause.” These questions arise in an endeavor at construction. Does the word “cause”…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Exon v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1894
- McCray, Alias Rosson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1898
- Red v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1898
- Rice v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1907
- Lankster v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1901
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