Jones v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Caldwell. Tried below before Hon. L. W. Moore. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, seven years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Dan, Roberts, on the 13th day of July, 1902, by shooting him with a gun. Dan Roberts, the deceased, was a white man; defendant, Charlie Jones, is a negro.
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Appeal from the District Court of Caldwell. Tried below before Hon. L. W. Moore. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, seven years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Dan, Roberts, on the 13th day of July, 1902, by shooting him with a gun. Dan Roberts, the deceased, was a white man; defendant, Charlie Jones, is a negro. It was proved that the house in which the killing occurred was a negro whorehouse where three or four women stayed, and where defendant also stayed. On the Saturday night before the killing the…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of seven years; hence this appeal.
Appellant objected to the testimony elicited from him on cross-examination by the State to the effect that he had been arrested in Lockhart, and carried back to Bastrop County, on the charge of having abducted a minor child. He objected to this on the ground that it was immaterial to any issue in this case, and calculated to injure and prejudice him before the jury. Felonies and misdemeanors which involve moral…
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