Legal Opinion

Arbuckle v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 13, 1926No. 9760Published

1Opinion of the CourtLattimore, J.

Appellant was convicted in criminal district' court No. 2 of Dallas county of the offense of murder, and his punishment fixed at 25 years in the penitentiary.

The case is before us' without any statement of facts. Appellant urges that his bills of exception Nos. 4, 5, and 6 show reversible error, in spite of such absence of facts. Bill No. 4 sets up that Jack Williams, husband of deceased, was the only eyewitness to the homicide, and on the day the case was first set for trial he came into the courtroom, as a witness for the state, in such condition of stupor or drunkenness that the learned…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. White v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1894
  2. Bratton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1895
  3. Smiley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1916

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