Nelson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Henry Nelson, Alma Crowson, Cressie Crowson and Ellis Nelson were also charged in separate indictments with the murder. It appears that certain slanderous statements and charges of a most vulgar character had been circulated about these young men and certain young ladies of the neighborhoood.
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Henry Nelson, Alma Crowson, Cressie Crowson and Ellis Nelson were also charged in separate indictments with the murder. It appears that certain slanderous statements and charges of a most vulgar character had been circulated about these young men and certain young ladies of the neighborhoood. The young men traced these slanders to one Henry Fellis, a negro; and he, after first denying them, finally declared that Bob Alexander, the deceased, was the party from whom he had received his information concerning the matter. Alexander had become apprised of the charges made against him, and told Dr.…
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years.
In his motion for new trial appellant complains of the following portion of the court’s charge to wit: “The court admitted evidence in this case tending to show that four other persons had several meetings with each other, and that at a meeting several days before the death of the deceased the four persons induced a negro man to sign what was called a Tie bill,’ and that it was said by some one then and there present that the deceased or…
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