Martin v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Fannin. Tried below before Hon. Ben H. Denton. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, eleven years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant separately with the murder of her husband, I. J. Martin, by shooting him with a pistol. R. D. Hudson, the father of appellant, had also been separately indicted for said murder, and upon trial was convicted.
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Appeal from the District Court of Fannin. Tried below before Hon. Ben H. Denton. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, eleven years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant separately with the murder of her husband, I. J. Martin, by shooting him with a pistol. R. D. Hudson, the father of appellant, had also been separately indicted for said murder, and upon trial was convicted. He appealed, and the case of Hudson v. State, 43 Texas Grim. Rep., 420, is the companion case to this case, and the essential facts pertaining to the murder will be…
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and her punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of eleven years. This is a companion case to that of Hudson v. State, 43 Texas Crim. Rep., 420, and the facts as stated in that opinion are substantially those disclosed by this record.
By bill number 1 complaint is made that, after J. E. Hammett had testified in chief for the State, appellant offered to prove by said witness that when he arrested B. D. Hudson on the night of the homicide he immediately informed Hudson that he arrested him for the…
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