Barnett v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hunt. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. Pierson. . Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, twenty-five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted for the murder of Harrison Choat, alleged to have been committed on June 26, 1914. The indictment was preferred July 9, 1914. The indictment is in the approved form and follows the statute. Appellant made a motion to quash it on many grounds. In submitting the case he did not urge the insufficiency of the indictment and in his brief he does not argue the question or cite any authority. We deem it unnecessary to state the various objections. The court did not err in overruling his motion. The jury fixed his penalty at twenty-five years in the…
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