Coleman v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Kerr. Tried below before Hon. Ed. Haltom, special judge. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, seven years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at seven years confinement in the penitentiary; hence this appeal.
By bill of exceptions number 1, appellant questions the action of the court refusing to permit him to show acts of familiarity between deceased, Jim Aslcey, and his daughter Pollie Scruggs; that is, some attempts on the part of deceased to solicit or obtain carnal intercourse with his daughter Pollie Scruggs. At the time of the homicide Pollie Scruggs is not shown to have occupied any relationship to appellant. Some months after…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Jones v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1897
3Cited by3 opinions
- Beauchamp v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1911
- Regittano v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1922
- Ward v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1911