Williams v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Smith. Tried below before the Hon. J. L. Camp. Gus Williams was tried and convicted on an indictment charging him with theft from a house.
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Appeal from Smith. Tried below before the Hon. J. L. Camp. Gus Williams was tried and convicted on an indictment charging him with theft from a house. On the trial the defendant, who was a negro, presented his challenge to the array of jurors on the following grounds : 1. That, being a colored man of African descent, he was presented a jury of white men, when he was entitled to a trial by a jury of his peers; that there was a natural as well as social antipathy between the races, and he could not for that cause expect an impartial trial. 2. That the jury was not “ selected without regard to…
1Opinion of the Court
Reeves, Associate Justice.
The appellant, Gus Williams, having been convicted of theft from a storehouse, moved for a new trial on two grounds:
1. Because the verdict of the jury is contrary to and not responsive to the charge of the court.
2. Because the verdict of the jury is contrary to law and the evidence.
The motion was overruled, and the defendant excepted and gave notice of an appeal.
The defendant- applied for a continuance of the case on the ground that he could not go safely to trial for want of *36the testimony of two witnesses—Brown and Green—and a witness whose name is omitted in the…
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