Shaw v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The following narrative statement of the case, which is correct, is taken from the brief of counsel who represented the State on the trial below, viz: The facts developed on the trial of this case, briefly stated, are substantially as follows: Thomas P. Crane, the deceased, was a young man, about 23 or 24 years old, and about the last of August or the first of September, 1897, he, with his wife and three small children, moved upon the Pierce ranch, located in Johnson County,…
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The following narrative statement of the case, which is correct, is taken from the brief of counsel who represented the State on the trial below, viz: The facts developed on the trial of this case, briefly stated, are substantially as follows: Thomas P. Crane, the deceased, was a young man, about 23 or 24 years old, and about the last of August or the first of September, 1897, he, with his wife and three small children, moved upon the Pierce ranch, located in Johnson County, Texas, having accepted employment to gather a crop of cotton growing on said ranch, and to keep the ranch house, and…
1Opinion of the Court
HTJBT, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at death; hence this appeal.
Appellant presented a motion for a continuance on account of the absence of the following witnesses: Walter Nobles, Mrs. Bill Masengale, Mrs. Short Calaban, Mary Fitzgerald, all of whom were alleged to reside in Johnson County; and Bob Gipson and Mrs. Bob Gipson, residents of Hill County; and George Ginn, a resident of Williamson County. The indictment was returned on the 18th of November, 1897. Appellant was then under arrest. Process was only issued for the…
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