Wallace v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The testimony is very voluminous, being largely circumstantial, except as to the testimony of the wife of the deceased, who from her own testimony shows that she conspired with one A. J. Carbough and appellant to kill her husband, the deceased. Her testimony in chief is set out in the opinion, as also such other facts which illustrate the points at issue.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at death; and prosecutes this appeal.
The first error assigned is the action of the court overruling appellant’s motion to change the venue. Several bills are presented to this action of the court; but all of these appear to have been presented and approved by the judge after the adjournment of the court. Appellant evidently assumed that he had a right to file his bills on this subject under the twenty-day order. This question was before this court in Lax v. State, 79 S. W. Rep., 578; and we…
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