Crow v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
This is a second appeal taken from a judgment of conviction assessing the punishment at a life term in the penitentiary in this case. See, first appeal, Crow v. State, 33 Tex. Crim. Rep., 264. The statement of facts is voluminous.
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This is a second appeal taken from a judgment of conviction assessing the punishment at a life term in the penitentiary in this case. See, first appeal, Crow v. State, 33 Tex. Crim. Rep., 264. The statement of facts is voluminous. In the main, the salient features are the same as those found recited in the opinion on the first appeal, and, in view of the matter upon which this appeal is disposed of, and which is fully stated in the opinion below, a further statement of the case is unnecessary.
1Opinion of the Court
HURT, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for life, for killing Miss Mollie White; hence this appeal is prosecuted. This was a most atrocious and revolting murder. The testimony against the appellant was circumstantial. Some facts tended strongly to incriminate him, and other facts tended strongly to exculpate him. It was very necessary and of the highest importance that the trial should be a fair, impartial legal trial, because, if the jury should take an unfavorable view of the evidence for the…
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