Ingram v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Milam. Tried below before the Hon. J. V. Scott. Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, sixty years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the ease. On question of declarations of deceased. Turner v. State, 45 S. W. Rep., 830; Early v. State, 51 Texas Crim.
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Appeal from the District Court of Milam. Tried below before the Hon. J. V. Scott. Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, sixty years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the ease. On question of declarations of deceased. Turner v. State, 45 S. W. Rep., 830; Early v. State, 51 Texas Crim. Repv 382, 103 S. W. Rep., 868; Gaines v. State, 42 S. W, Rep., 385. On question of grand jury testimony to impeach State’s own witness: Nnight v. State, 6'5 S. W. Rep., 88; Gibson v. State, 29 S. W. Rep., 471; Ozark v. State, 51 Texas Crim. Rep., 106, 100 £>. W. Rep., 927; Skeen v State,…
1Opinion of the Court
HARPER, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder and his punishment assessed at sixty years confinement in the State penitentiary.
In this case the State was seeking to corroborate the testimony of Mrs. L. W. Ward, the wife of deceased, the State knowing her testimony would place her in a position to be an accomplice to the crime, and knew she would testify to adulterous relations existing between herself and appellant, the State relying on this to snow a motive for appellant to kill deceased, and to corroborate her, the State was adducing testimony that he was seen at or near her house…
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- McCue v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1913
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