Sigler v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Wise. Tried below before the Hou. J. A. Carroll. Iu 7 Texas Ct. App. 283 will be found a report of this cáse upon an appeal from a former conviction of the appellant upon the same indictment, and there will also be found a sufficient statement of the material facts. At the trial from which the present appeal results, the testimony of the defendant’s wife, excluded at the former trial, was admitted in behalf of the defence.
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Appeal from the District Court of Wise. Tried below before the Hou. J. A. Carroll. Iu 7 Texas Ct. App. 283 will be found a report of this cáse upon an appeal from a former conviction of the appellant upon the same indictment, and there will also be found a sufficient statement of the material facts. At the trial from which the present appeal results, the testimony of the defendant’s wife, excluded at the former trial, was admitted in behalf of the defence. Its purport appears in the report above referred to. The opinion now reported, in connection with the second head-note, supplies such…
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, P. J.
This is a second appeal taken in this case. (See 7 Texas Ct. App. 283.) At the trial in the court below, as shown in this case, the defendant requested the court to charge the jury “ that the husband has the control, care, and management of the personal property of the wife (whether acquired before or after the marriage relation) during the marriage relation. 2. If the jury believe from the evidence that Mrs. M. M. Sigler (formerly Mrs. M. M. Mathews), wife of the defendant, owned the ‘22’ brand, and that she had horses running in the range in that brand, and that defendant did take up off…
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