Salter v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bust. Tried below before the-Hon. W. G. Buford. Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, fifteen years confinement in the penitentiary. The opinion states the ease. On question of failure to point out error in refused requested charges: Berg' v. State, 64 Texas Crim. JRep., 612; Byan v. State, 64 id., 628'; Byrd y. State, 69 id., 35.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder, his punishment being assessed at fifteen years confinement in the penitentiary.
The theory of the State was that the parties, defendant and his brother Emmett, were at the blacksmith shop, which seems to have been the property of one or both of them, and the deceased, in a wagon with his wife and children and a girl who was not his child, drove by, where they were. The defendant’s theory was that there had been trouble between the defendant and the deceased growing out of a matter of tenancy, and that on this particular morning they were there…
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