Legal Opinion

Turner v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided April 4, 1945No. 23094PublishedCited by 5 opinions

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of an assault with intent to murder with malice upon Dora Turner, and by the jury assessed a penalty of fourteen years in the penitentiary.

The facts reflect the night life of a city in various places of amusement. Appellant seems at one time to have been the wife of one Homer Medford, and Dora Turner was the third person in this triangle, the testimony evidencing the fact that Dora Turner was infatuated with Medford, even going to the extent of living with him for some time in a tourist camp, so the witnesses said, and having had Medford’s initials…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Powell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1924
  2. Davis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1926

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1967
  2. Donald v. Dumont v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
  3. Dickson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1971
  4. Ex Parte CovinCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1955
  5. Orlando Salinas v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2014

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