Legal Opinion

Walker v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided March 17, 1920No. 5759PublishedCited by 25 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of Bowie. Tried below before the Honorable -P. A. Turner. Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, fifteen years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

Appellant presents an application for writ of certiorari to perfect the record. The basis of this is found in the following statement: Appellant presented to the court a bill of exceptions for his approval. The court took the bill, and, after keeping it for a while, qualified and filed it without notice to or consent of appellant. When this was done appellant filed an exception to the action of the court, accompanied also by a by-standers' bill showing the facts. The merits of the question are not here discussed, but believing that the matter should have been sent up in the record so this…

2Cited by25 opinions

  1. Sam Hoover v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
  2. Johnson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1930
  3. Whitson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1973
  4. Hunt v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1921
  5. Cain v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1950

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