Hill v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted, tried, and convicted of murder, with a recommendation to the mercy of the court. He made a motion for new trial on the usual general grounds only, which motion was overruled, and he excepted. No error of law is alleged to have been committed on the trial. Certain of the evidence on which the State relied for conviction was as follows:

C. A. Cannon testified: “I knew Seaborn Hill on the 18th day of July of this year, and I saw him between my house and Columbus that day, in Harris County. At the time I saw him there at the place he was alone, and here is what…