Stiles v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The parties to the homicide were negroes. Appellant was a preacher. According to the testimony of Henrietta Edwards, the wife of deceased, she and appellant, Sam Stiles, had been criminally intimate, and she testified that Sam Stiles did the killing. Sheriff Tully and Sam Pridgen went to defendant’s house on the next day after the killing and examined his gun.
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The parties to the homicide were negroes. Appellant was a preacher. According to the testimony of Henrietta Edwards, the wife of deceased, she and appellant, Sam Stiles, had been criminally intimate, and she testified that Sam Stiles did the killing. Sheriff Tully and Sam Pridgen went to defendant’s house on the next day after the killing and examined his gun. They testified that the gun had been recently cleaned, and Sam Pridgen testified that he ran his finger into the muzzle and was satisfied it had been -recently discharged. The questions discussed are fully stated in the opinion in…
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was indicted for murder, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at death.
After-a careful review of all the matters raised by appellant in this record, the only question we deem necessary to consider at length is the admissibility of certain evidence, as set out in bill of exceptions number 1, which is as follows: “The State, over objections of defendant, propounded to the witness Ed Tully the following questions and elicited the-following answers: ‘When you returned to your buggy, where you left defendant, before going into his house,…
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