Williams v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
This appeal is from a conviction for robbery, the punishment being assessed at five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The essential facts will be shown by the testimony in chief of Henry Selz, first witness for the State, who testified as follows: “My name is Henry Selz. I live at Pilot Point, Denton County, Texas; have been living there for the past eighteen years. I am in the public gin business at that place.
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This appeal is from a conviction for robbery, the punishment being assessed at five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The essential facts will be shown by the testimony in chief of Henry Selz, first witness for the State, who testified as follows: “My name is Henry Selz. I live at Pilot Point, Denton County, Texas; have been living there for the past eighteen years. I am in the public gin business at that place. J. P. Cooper and Matt Williams are in partnership with me in that business, under the firm name of Cooper, Selz & Co., and were on the 27th of October, 1894. I have charge of…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
The appellant in this case was convicted of the offense of robbery, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for five years, and from the judgment and sentence of the lower court he prosecutes this appeal.
The indictment in this case contains four counts. The defendant was convicted under the third count, which is as follows: “And the grand jurors aforesaid,, upon their oaths aforesaid, further present in said court, that the said P. E. Williams, on the day and year aforesaid, in the county and State aforesaid, and anterior to the presentment of this indictment, did…
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