In Re Duncan
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM TIIE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. The case, as stated by the court, was a.s follows: Dick Duncan was indicted by the grand jury of Maverick County, Texas, for the crime of murder, and having been arraigned, was tried in the District Court of that county and State, found .guilty, and his punishment assessed at death, and the court entered judgment accordingly, from which -he appealed to the Court of Appeals. lie was…
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APPEAL FROM TIIE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. The case, as stated by the court, was a.s follows: Dick Duncan was indicted by the grand jury of Maverick County, Texas, for the crime of murder, and having been arraigned, was tried in the District Court of that county and State, found .guilty, and his punishment assessed at death, and the court entered judgment accordingly, from which -he appealed to the Court of Appeals. lie was thereupon committed to the jail of Bexar County upon the ground that there was no safe jail in Maverick County, McCall, the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
By section 1, Article V,. of the constitution of Texas, the judicial power of the State ivas vested “ in one Supreme Court, in a Court of Appeals, in District Courts, in county courts, in commissioners’ courts, in courts of justices, of the peace and in such other courts as may be established by law.”
By section 3, the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court was confined to civil cases; by section G it was provided that “the ■Court of Appeals shall have appellate jurisdiction, coexten sive with the limits of the State in all criminal cases, of whatever grade;” and by section 8, that “the District…
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