Blackburn v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Nacogdoches. ■ Tried below before Hon. Jas. I. Perkins. Appeal from a conviction of assault with intent to murder; penalty, four years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of assault to murder. When the case was called for trial an application for continuance was overruled. This is presented for revision. It was the first application. By the two absent witnesses, A. J. Kinney and his wife, Etta, it was expected to be shown that they had spent the night at the residence of appellant prior to the shooting the following morning; that early on the morning of the difficulty the wife of the alleged assaulted party, Mrs. Della Rawlinson, was sent by her husband to defendant’s house, to inform him (appellant) that one…
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