Woods v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The salient facts in this case are, that about an hour before the fatal difficulty deceased had been in defendant’s barber shop and was shaved by a female barber, concerning whom the defendant and deceased had a wordy altercation and defendant ordered him out of the barber shop: that about an hour thereafter deceased returned to make an apology to the defendant, claiming that the first trouble was based upon a misunderstanding between them, when defendant again ordered him…
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The salient facts in this case are, that about an hour before the fatal difficulty deceased had been in defendant’s barber shop and was shaved by a female barber, concerning whom the defendant and deceased had a wordy altercation and defendant ordered him out of the barber shop: that about an hour thereafter deceased returned to make an apology to the defendant, claiming that the first trouble was based upon a misunderstanding between them, when defendant again ordered him out of the barber shop, and as deceased was leaving and when outside within eight or ten feet of the door, with his back…
1Opinion of the Court
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Appellant was given a life sentence in the penitentiary, in the Criminal District Court of Tarrant County, for the murder of one W. R. Price.
The killing occurred in the city of Et. Worth, in a barbershop, of which appellant was proprietor. The evidence is sharply conflicting as to which of the parties, appellant or deceased, began the' fatal difficulty, but if it is conceded that under the rule that conflicts in evidence are to be settled by the jury, there is ample evidence in the record to support the verdict.
Taking the various matters here urged as error, in the order in…
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