Early v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Collin. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. Andrews, Special Judge. This is the second appeal from a conviction of Early in the court below, of murder in the first degree. See 1 Texas Ct.
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Appeal from the District Court of Collin. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. Andrews, Special Judge. This is the second appeal from a conviction of Early in the court below, of murder in the first degree. See 1 Texas Ct. App. 249. The indictment charged the appellant with the murder of Charles M. Winters, in Cooke County, February 24, 1873. The former conviction having been reversed by this court, the appellant was put upon his second trial at the January term, 1880, of the Collin County District Court (the venue, prior to the first trial, having been changed from Cooke), and a verdict of…
1Opinion of the CourtWinkler, J.
The indictment, which was returned into the District Court of Cooke County, charges the defendant *483with the morder of one Charles M. Winters, alleged to have been committed in Cooke County, Texas, on February 24, 1873. In March, 1874, the venue was changed to Collin County, on application "of the defendant. A trial was bad before W. H. Andrews, Esq., special" judge selected for the trial, which resulted in a verdict and judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree, the punishment being assessed at confinement at hard labor for life in the State penitentiary. On the overruling of a…
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- Murray v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1871