Plummer v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
In addition to what has been said in the opinion of the court, and to show the immediate facts surrounding the case, it may be further stated that defendant’s family consisted of himself, his wife and two children, one a son of about fourteen years and one a daughter of about seven years of age; that according to the defense testimony the husband and wife had lived together amicably for some eighteen years, and until about three weeks before this that at this time defendant…
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In addition to what has been said in the opinion of the court, and to show the immediate facts surrounding the case, it may be further stated that defendant’s family consisted of himself, his wife and two children, one a son of about fourteen years and one a daughter of about seven years of age; that according to the defense testimony the husband and wife had lived together amicably for some eighteen years, and until about three weeks before this that at this time defendant was still suffering from the enfeebling effects of an attack of the influenza and that he was irritable from loss of…
1Opinion of the Court
LATTIMORE, Judge.
—Appellant was convicted in the Criminal District Court of Tarrant County, of the offense of assault to murder, and his punishment fixed at seven years in the penitentiary.
The facts are rather lengthy, and, inasmuch as a statement of them is not necessary to dispose of the case, we will not discuss them further than to say that the evidence shows almost without contradiction, that appellant shot his wife, and inflicted serious injury upon her at the time charged in the indictment.
Appellant’s principal defense was insanity. He placed on the stand a number of witnesses on this…
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