Robertson v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from. Guadalupe. Tried below before the Hon, Henry Maney. The defendant was tried for murder, and was convicted of murder in the second degree, with punishment fixed at fifteen years confinement in the penitentiary. A motion for a new trial was filed and overruled.
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Appeal from. Guadalupe. Tried below before the Hon, Henry Maney. The defendant was tried for murder, and was convicted of murder in the second degree, with punishment fixed at fifteen years confinement in the penitentiary. A motion for a new trial was filed and overruled. Subsequent to the filing of the motion, the record "shows the following proceedings: “How, on this day came John Ireland, John P. White and W. P. H. Douglass, attorneys of this court, who-say that on the trial of this cause they appeared as counsel for the defendant under the appointment of the District Court of Guadalupe…
1Opinion of the CourtOgden, J.
On the twenty-second of June the appellant was tried and convicted of murder in the second degree, and on the twenty-fourth of the same month, counsel for the defendant filed a motion for a new trial. It further appears, from the bill of exceptions, that on the day subsequent to filing the motion for new trial, all the counsel for the defendant, who had been appointed by the court to take charge of the prisoner’s defence, were arrested by order of the court for an alleged contempt of the court committed previously, or rather for refusing to pay a fine *189assessed against them for a contempt. It…
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