Brown v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appellant was indicted for the murder of Jane Wilkins, by striking and cutting her with an axe. At his trial he was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at death.
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Appellant was indicted for the murder of Jane Wilkins, by striking and cutting her with an axe. At his trial he was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at death. Defendant filed a plea to the jurisdiction of the court, in which he attacked the constitutionality of the Act of the called session of the Twenty-second Legislature, organizing and establishing the Twenty-first Judicial District of the State of Texas, and transferring the county of Bastrop from the Twenty-second Judicial District, to which it belonged, and making it a part of the said Twenty-first…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at death.
It is contended, that the Act of the special session of the Twenty-second Legislature, organizing the Twenty-first Judicial District, is unconstitutional, because the Governor did not, in his proclamation convening said Legislature, designate this particular matter in said proclamation as a “subject” for legislation.
Article 4, section 8, of the Constitution, provides, that “ the Governor may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the Legislature at the seat of Government, or at a…
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