Davis v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Jasper. Tried below before the Hon. A. E. Davis. Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the ease. On question of court’s charge on principals: Cunningham v. State, 27 Texas Crim. App., 479. On question of independent impulse: Smith v. State, 52 Texas Crim. Bep., 27; Turner v. State, 20 Texas Crim.
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Appeal from the District Court of Jasper. Tried below before the Hon. A. E. Davis. Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the ease. On question of court’s charge on principals: Cunningham v. State, 27 Texas Crim. App., 479. On question of independent impulse: Smith v. State, 52 Texas Crim. Bep., 27; Turner v. State, 20 Texas Crim. App., 68; Harris v. State, 15 id., 636. On question of conspiracy: Blaine v. State, 18 S. W. Bep., 862; Benner v. State, 65 S. W. Bep., 1102. Upon court’s charge on accomplice’s testimony: Jones…
1Opinion of the Court
HABPEB, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder, and his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the State penitentiary.
Tom Hughes testified that he, Walter Buckley and Dock Hughes, on the night of the homicide, ate supper at the home of the mother of Dock Hughes, and after supper all three of them got in a buggy and went to appellant’s, Harvey Davis’ home. That appellant joined them,, riding his horse, and they went to the home of June Thomas for the purpose of whipping June Thomas; that Dock Hughes carried a rifle and appellant carried a shotgun. They all used a veil made of a…
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