Mixon v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hill. Tried below before Hon. J. M. Hall. This appeal is from a conviction for murder in the second degree, the punishment being assessed at twenty-five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the District Court of Hill. Tried below before Hon. J. M. Hall. This appeal is from a conviction for murder in the second degree, the punishment being assessed at twenty-five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. This is a case in which the defendant, Joe Mixon, was indicted for the murder of one Ben Mooring, by indictment presented in the District Court of Hill County, Texas, on-the 15th day of November, 1895. The indictment charges the murder to have been committed on or about the 28th day of April, 1893. The case is numbered on the docket of the District Court as No. -3859.…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for twenty-five years, and from the judgment and sentence of the lower court he prosecutes this appeal. Ajijiellant, in the court below, when he was jilaced on trial, filed a jilea setting up the fact that he had formerly been tried for the same offense alleged in the indictment in this case, and convicted of manslaughter, and set up what purjiorted to be a cojiy of the original indictment, alleging that he could not set up an exact cojiy of same, as the…
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