Hanna v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appellant was indicted for the murder of his wife, Josephine, about the 12th day of June, 1903, in Kaufman County, Texas. Defendant and Beulah Crosby, his stepdaughter, were charged with the murder and the-latter was used as a State’s witness, and was the only witness placed on the stand who directly implicated defendant. She first refused to tell anything further than to state that she knew something of the killing, but was afraid to tell it.
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Appellant was indicted for the murder of his wife, Josephine, about the 12th day of June, 1903, in Kaufman County, Texas. Defendant and Beulah Crosby, his stepdaughter, were charged with the murder and the-latter was used as a State’s witness, and was the only witness placed on the stand who directly implicated defendant. She first refused to tell anything further than to state that she knew something of the killing, but was afraid to tell it. It seems that afterwards, when some of tim county officers, as they testified, made out like they -were going to place a rope around her neck and hang…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for twenty-five years.
The State used Beulah Crosby as a witness. She was the stepdaughter of appellant and had been going around the country with him under circumstances which would leave the inference that their relations were criminally intimate. On the night of the homicide they were occupying a room some miles distant from where deceased, who was the wife of appellant, was evidently assassinated. This witness testified that on the night it is…
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