Franklin v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This is the second appeal of this case. A report of the former appeal will be found in 53 Texas Crim. Rep., 388.

Appellant seems to have defended himself. We judge from the record that the attorneys representing him on this appeal became connected with the case after the conviction.

There are several quite interesting questions in the case which ought to require a reversal of the judgment if exceptions had been properly reserved.

Among others is the introduction of the testimony of an absent witness, an Italian. The district attorney was permitted to testify that on a…