Cooper v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and his punishment fixed at twenty-five years confinement in the penitentiary.

The statement of facts is quite lengthy. The material evidence, however, is not extensive. The statement shows the witnesses were examined in chief, crossed, re-examined, re-crossed over and over again,—simply a rehashing of the same matter without developing anything additional in most of the re-examinations. The appellant and his deceased wife, whom he was convicted of murdering, and appellant’s sister and a man by the name of…