Cox v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. G. H. Noonan. The appeal in this important, interesting, and well-contested case is from a capital conviction of each of the appellants, William Cox, Jake Byan, and Joe Sitterlie, for the murder of George Brazell, in the county of DeWitt, on Tuesday, September 19, 1876. The trial was had at the spring term, 1878, of the District Court of Bexar County, by reason of a change of venue awarded by Hon. H. C.…
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Appeal from the District Court of Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. G. H. Noonan. The appeal in this important, interesting, and well-contested case is from a capital conviction of each of the appellants, William Cox, Jake Byan, and Joe Sitterlie, for the murder of George Brazell, in the county of DeWitt, on Tuesday, September 19, 1876. The trial was had at the spring term, 1878, of the District Court of Bexar County, by reason of a change of venue awarded by Hon. H. C. Pleasants, judge of the district comprising the county of DeWitt, who, in making the order upon his own motion, assigned…
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, P. J.
On the night of the 19th of September, 1876, about the hour of eleven o’clock, Dr. Philip Brazell and his son George Brazell were taken from their home by a body composed of some ten or twelve armed men, claiming to be a sheriff with his posse, were carried some two hundred yards into the woods, and were there most foully and inhumanly shot to death. This double assassination occurred in the county of DeWitt.
Prior to the finding of an indictment, two investigations with regard to the murder were had, at each of which the testimony was reduced to writing,— the one being a coroner’s inquest,…
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