Brown v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Montague. Tried below before the Hon. J. A. Carroll. The facts germane to the rulings are disclosed in the opinion. The indictment jointly charged the appellant, his brother Andrew, J. W. Bell, and Albert Harris with the murder, in the county of Montague, of one It. S. Morrow, on September 5, 1873. The appellant alone was on trial.
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Appeal from the District Court of Montague. Tried below before the Hon. J. A. Carroll. The facts germane to the rulings are disclosed in the opinion. The indictment jointly charged the appellant, his brother Andrew, J. W. Bell, and Albert Harris with the murder, in the county of Montague, of one It. S. Morrow, on September 5, 1873. The appellant alone was on trial. Morrow resided in the same neighborhood with the parties indicted for his assassination, which was accomplished by shooting him from ambush as he, his little son, and a companion were riding along the road. There was some vague…
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, J.
Appellant was indicted on November 1, 1873, in the District Court of Montague County, jointly with Andrew Brown, J. W. Bell, and Albert Harris, for the murder, in Montague County, of one B. S. Morrow, on September 5, A. D. 1873, About a month before the case was first called for trial, the defendant, George Brown, this appellant, was arrested and placed in confinement in the county jail.
On October 30, 1876, a copy of the indictment was served upon him in jail, it being the day upon which the term of the District Court commenced. A special venire was ordered the same day, made returnable on…
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