Leeper v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Coryell. Tried below before Hon. C. K. Bell. The appellants were jointly indicted, tried, and convicted in the first degree for the murder of J. T. Mathis, in Coryell County, Texas, on the 17th day of December, 1889. The death penalty was assessed against each of them. Alex Dargent was the first witness for the State. He testified that in December, 1889, he lived on Cowhouse Creek, in Coryell County.
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Appeal from the District Court of Coryell. Tried below before Hon. C. K. Bell. The appellants were jointly indicted, tried, and convicted in the first degree for the murder of J. T. Mathis, in Coryell County, Texas, on the 17th day of December, 1889. The death penalty was assessed against each of them. Alex Dargent was the first witness for the State. He testified that in December, 1889, he lived on Cowhouse Creek, in Coryell County. At the time that Mathis was said to have been shot the witness was at Mr. Jackson’s house, about a mile and a half from the place where the shooting occurred.…
1Opinion of the Court
WILLSON, Judge.
Over the defendants’ objections the State was permitted to prove that a few minutes after Mathis, the deceased, was .attacked and shot, and at the same locality, Bates and the two Harveys were assaulted by two persons; that the elder Harvey was shot by said two persons and severely but not mortally wounded; that one of said two persons making said assault was the defendant Ed. Powell, and that the other one resembled the defendant Leeper; that said assault was made by ¡said two persons for the purpose of robbing the persons assaulted. Defendants reserved a bill of exception to…
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