Wright v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Medina. Tried below before Hon. Eugene Archer. Appeal from a conviction for manslaughter; penalty, two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of J. J. Glover, in Medina County, on the 26th of June, 1894, by shooting him with a gnn. The deceased, Glover, was the son-in-law of the defendant, J. A. Wright.
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Appeal from the District Court of Medina. Tried below before Hon. Eugene Archer. Appeal from a conviction for manslaughter; penalty, two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of J. J. Glover, in Medina County, on the 26th of June, 1894, by shooting him with a gnn. The deceased, Glover, was the son-in-law of the defendant, J. A. Wright. The record is not clear as to the original canse of the trouble between the parties; but, it seems that they had been at outs for a year or more before the killing, and it was proved that deceased had made…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of manslaughter, • and his punishment assessed at two years in the penitentiary, and he prosecutes this appeal. In this case appellant took several bills . of exception to the refusal of the court to permit testimony that the deceased had used insulting language toward the female relations of the defendant. The offer of this testimony was not coupled with any proffer on the part of counsel to show that, prior to the killing, the same were communicated to the defendant, and that thereafter he shot the deceased on his first meeting with him; and the…
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