Hedrick v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hill. Tried below before Hon. J. M. Hall. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the first degree; penalty, a life term in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of J. F. Pauly, on the 8th day of May, 1897, by shooting him with a pistol. The important facts attendant upon the killing are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted for the murder of J. F. Pauly, by shooting him with a pistol, and his punishment assessed at confinement, in the penitentiary for life.
The corpus delicti is undisputed, and disclosed that deceased was shot and killed by a burglar in his effort to escape from a smokehouse he had entered. The thief and murderer, whoever he was, had helped himself to three hams and about fifty pounds of meat. It is shown by the evidence that two sides and a shoulder of meat were left by the burglar in a sack when he fled. R. W. Pauly, father of deceased, testified, in…
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