Cook v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bastrop. Tried below before Hon. H. Teichmuller. Appellant was convicted in the court below of murder in the first degree, with penalty assessed at death. The murdered party was Ida Bell Moore, a young white girl 16 years of age, who was residing at the time of her death with her stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellamy. Defendant was a negro about 30 or 35 years of age, who lived about two miles or more from the Bellamys.
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Appeal from the District Court of Bastrop. Tried below before Hon. H. Teichmuller. Appellant was convicted in the court below of murder in the first degree, with penalty assessed at death. The murdered party was Ida Bell Moore, a young white girl 16 years of age, who was residing at the time of her death with her stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellamy. Defendant was a negro about 30 or 35 years of age, who lived about two miles or more from the Bellamys. On the afternoon of June 19, 1891, between 2 and 3 o’clock, Ida Bell Moore left her mother’s house on foot and alone, to visit…
1Opinion of the Court
WHITE, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was indicted for and convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of one Ida Bell Moore. Appellant was a negro man; the deceased a young white girl, about 16 years of age. The evidence shows that the murder was committed by the deceased having been choked to death, and also shows conclusively that it was committed in the perpetration, or attempt at the perpetration, of rape. At the trial appellant was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at death.
The record in the case is very voluminous, and the evidence entirely…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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