Ripley v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. Sam R. Scott. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree; penalty, life imprisonment in the penitentiary. The State’s case claims that the defendant acted together with other parties in bringing about the death of the deceased in a street car strike at Waco; whereas the defendant claims no participation in the strike or as conspiring to injure or bring about the death of the deceased.
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Appeal from the District Court of McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. Sam R. Scott. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree; penalty, life imprisonment in the penitentiary. The State’s case claims that the defendant acted together with other parties in bringing about the death of the deceased in a street car strike at Waco; whereas the defendant claims no participation in the strike or as conspiring to injure or bring about the death of the deceased. This with the statement in the opinion is sufficient.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Pbesidihg Judge.
This conviction was for murder, a life sentence in the penitentiary being the penalty imposed for killing Hays.
Exception was reserved to the admission of the testimony of Rathell, Stewart and Prather. Rathell testified that on a certain morning during the strike, which occurred in Waco, Texas, and four days before the killing, John Tennison had a difficulty at the street car station with a man named Hatfield, who was one of the employees of the street railway company as a motorman. Tennison was at the office of Rathell on this occasion, on the pavement in front of…
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