Warren v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bell. Tried below before Hon. W. A. Blackburn. The opinion states succinctly the material facts of the case.
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, Presiding Judge
This appeal is from a conviction of murder in the second degree, the punishment being assessed at five years in the penitentiary. The alleged murdered party was an infant child only three days old, begotten of appellant out of wedlock, but born a little more than a month from the time the appellant and the mother had been lawfully married.
There are five counts in the indictment. Two of them aver that the infant came to its death at the hands of the defendant by means unknown to the grand jury. The fourth count alleges: “That I. B. Warren, on or about the 16th day of May, A. D. 1890, in the…
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