Loggins v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Austin. Tried below before the Hon. L. W. Moore. At page 435 of Volume 8 of these Reports will be found the case of Henry Loggins v. State, on appeal from a former conviction for murder in the first degree and an assessment of a life-term in the penitentiary. The present appeal is from a second conviction and a similar assessment.
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Appeal from the District Court of Austin. Tried below before the Hon. L. W. Moore. At page 435 of Volume 8 of these Reports will be found the case of Henry Loggins v. State, on appeal from a former conviction for murder in the first degree and an assessment of a life-term in the penitentiary. The present appeal is from a second conviction and a similar assessment. In nearly all substantial particulars the evidence at the last trial was the same as that at the first, which is sufficiently embodied in the former report of the cause. At the last trial in the court below, however, the evidence…
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, P. J.
On the former appeal in this case, where the verdict and judgment were the same as on this appeal, viz., murder in the first degree with imprisonment for life in the penitentiary, the judgment was reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial- because of the admission of incompetent evidence against the defendant. 8 Texas Ct. App. 434.
Two jurors, Lass and Sterns, were challenged for cause by defendant, and the challenge was overruled by the court and defendant compelled to exhaust peremptory challenges upon them, which he did, and thereby succeeded in ridding himself of them. But it is…
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