Jennings v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Lamar. Tried below before Hon. E. D. McClellan. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Davie Wig gins on the 21st day of November, 1898, by shooting him with a pistol.
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Appeal from the District Court of Lamar. Tried below before Hon. E. D. McClellan. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Davie Wig gins on the 21st day of November, 1898, by shooting him with a pistol. The following statement of the case, which is substantially correct, is taken from the brief of counsel for appellant: The case practically and substantially stated is, that appellant, S, C. Jennings, married old lady Wiggins in September, 1898, and it seems that her boys,…
1Opinion of the Court
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of ten years.
Appellant objected to eliciting from certain State's witnesses a conversation between defendant and his wife which occurred at the time of the homicide. The question propounded by the district attorney was as follows: "What, if anything, did the wife of defendant say immediately after the firing of the shot?" And each of the State's witnesses in answer to said question stated that the wife of defendant said to defendant, "You have killed my darling…
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