Hull v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
According to the defendant’s statement he and his wife had been quarreling about some rings upon which they had been trying to get some money; that when they had finally got settled down, and went down the street, and he started to take the rings away from her, that a crowd gathered around, and he ran and that the deceased came up in a buggy behind him and hollowed at him to halt, and that defendant shot at him twice; and he also said he shot four times.
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According to the defendant’s statement he and his wife had been quarreling about some rings upon which they had been trying to get some money; that when they had finally got settled down, and went down the street, and he started to take the rings away from her, that a crowd gathered around, and he ran and that the deceased came up in a buggy behind him and hollowed at him to halt, and that defendant shot at him twice; and he also said he shot four times. This with the statement in the opinion is sufficient to understand the errors assigned.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for fifty years; and prosecutes this appeal.
Appellant’s first assignment of error questions the jurisdiction of Judge Lewis Fisher to try said case. The record shows that Judge Jas. K. P. Gillaspie is the Criminal District Judge of Galveston and Harris Counties, and that Judge Lewis Fisher is the Judge of the 10th Judicial District composed of the County of Galveston, and that Judge Fisher was holding court for Judge Gillaspie at the latter’s request. The…
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