Randle v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
This appeal is from a conviction for murder of the second degree, the punishment being assessed at a term of twenty years in the penitentiary. Appellant was indicted in the District Court of Dallas County, at the January Term, 1893, for the murder of E. S. Randall. The indictment was found by the grand jury, and was returned and presented in and to the District Court of the Forty-fourth Judicial District in and for the county of Dallas.
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This appeal is from a conviction for murder of the second degree, the punishment being assessed at a term of twenty years in the penitentiary. Appellant was indicted in the District Court of Dallas County, at the January Term, 1893, for the murder of E. S. Randall. The indictment was found by the grand jury, and was returned and presented in and to the District Court of the Forty-fourth Judicial District in and for the county of Dallas. As originally presented, the indictment did not show that it was presented “in the District Court of the.Forty-fourth Judicial District.” By act approved May…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSOB, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, his punishment being assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of twenty years; hence this appeal.
When the case was called for trial appellant moved a change of venue, upon both grounds set forth in the statute. In support of both grounds there were ten compurgators; and in support of the first ground, to wit, prejudice, there were thirty-one. The contesting affidavit for the State was signed by the county attorney. The court, before the evidence began upon the issues involved in the motion, limited the…
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