Pierson v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Travis. Tried below before the Hon. A. S. Walker. ■ This is the companion case to that of Bob Pierson v. The State, which will be found reported in full in the eighteenth volume of these Reports, commencing on page 524. This conviction was in the first degree for the murder of Doctor J. C. Stovall, in Travis county, Texas, on the sixteenth day of March, 1885. A life term in the penitentiary was the penalty assessed by the jury against this…
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Appeal from the District Court of Travis. Tried below before the Hon. A. S. Walker. ■ This is the companion case to that of Bob Pierson v. The State, which will be found reported in full in the eighteenth volume of these Reports, commencing on page 524. This conviction was in the first degree for the murder of Doctor J. C. Stovall, in Travis county, Texas, on the sixteenth day of March, 1885. A life term in the penitentiary was the penalty assessed by the jury against this appellant. Dennis Corwin, the first witness for the State, identified the diagram used upon the trial of Bob Pierson’s…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
This is a companion case to that of Bob Pierson v. The State, 18 Texas Court of Appeals, 524. A joint indictment charged appellant and his brother, Bob Pierson, with the murder of J. C. Stovall, and, upon a severance, Bob was tried first and convicted of murder of the second degree, with a penalty assessed of thirty years in the penitentiary; the convic*55tion in this case being for murder of the first degree, with a life term in the penitentiary affixed by way of punishment.
1. A motion for change of venue was made by defendant in this case, based upon the statutory…
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