Brumley v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hunt. Tried below before the Hon. J. A. B. Putman. The indictment in this case charged the appellant with the murder of Isaac McAdams, in Hunt county, Texas, on the sixth day of September, 1884. His trial resulted in his conviction of murder in the second degree, his punishment being affixed at a term of twenty years in the penitentiary. Yancey O. McAdams was the first witness for the State.
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Appeal from the District Court of Hunt. Tried below before the Hon. J. A. B. Putman. The indictment in this case charged the appellant with the murder of Isaac McAdams, in Hunt county, Texas, on the sixth day of September, 1884. His trial resulted in his conviction of murder in the second degree, his punishment being affixed at a term of twenty years in the penitentiary. Yancey O. McAdams was the first witness for the State. He testified that he was a brother of the deceased', and that he knew the defendant. On the morning of September 6, 1884, the deceased was at the witness’s house in Hunt…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
Preliminary to a discussion of the main question which we propose to present, we deem it essential to give a brief .summary of the salient features of the evidence gleaned from the statement of facts in the record.
On Saturday, September 26, 1884, appellant Brumley shot and killed one Isaac McAdams, in the road immediately in front of his, Brumley’s, residence. A few days before the homicide some one had shot and killed a horse belonging to appellant, and one Williams, who was a nephew of the deceased, had been arrested under a complaint charging him with this offense.…
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