West v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Lampasas. Tried below before Hon. John M. Furman. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the first degree; penalty, imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. Appellant was charged by the indictment with the murder of Frank Wells, on the 5th day of July, 1898, by shooting him with a gun. A very clear but concise statement of the important facts of the case will be found in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for life, and appeals.
The first asignment of error is based upon the refusal of the court to grant the application for continuance. A sufficient answer to this contention is that a hill of exceptions was not reserved to this ruling of the court. It has been settled by a long line of decisions, running hack into the Supreme Court Reports, that the ruling of the court refusing an application for continuance will not be revised in the absence of a hill…
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