Graham v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Robertson. Tried below before Hon. J. L. Goodman, Special Judge. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, thirty-five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of A. L. Boswell, on the 16th day of March, 1900, by shooting him with a gun.
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Appeal from the District Court of Robertson. Tried below before Hon. J. L. Goodman, Special Judge. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, thirty-five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of A. L. Boswell, on the 16th day of March, 1900, by shooting him with a gun. Defendant pleaded to the jurisdiction of the court upon the ground that Hon. J. L. Goodman, the special judge presiding, was disqualified from trying the case on account of the relation of attorney and client which had existed between the said J. L.…
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the sec ond degree, and his punishment assessed at thirty-five years confinement in the penitentiary.
In the view we take of this case, it is only necessar3r to consider one question. Appellant, in his motion for new trial, urges that the Hon. J. L. Goodman, the special judge who tried this case, was disqualified by reason of the fact that he had been counsel for appellant. This matter is presented in the shape of affidavits attached to the motion. James M. Brown, in his affidavit, states that he was an uncle of Guy and Eugene Graham; for the…
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