Williams v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Comanche. Tried below before the Hon. T. H. Conner. This is the companion case to the preceding case of I. IT. Williams v. The State. The conviction was had under an indictment charging the appellant with breaking into the Comanche county jail on the night of April 28, 1886, and liberating certain prisoners. The report of the I. IT.
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Appeal from the District Court of Comanche. Tried below before the Hon. T. H. Conner. This is the companion case to the preceding case of I. IT. Williams v. The State. The conviction was had under an indictment charging the appellant with breaking into the Comanche county jail on the night of April 28, 1886, and liberating certain prisoners. The report of the I. IT. Williams case, Commencing on page 17 of this volume, contains a full statement of the evidence adduced upon that trial. The same witnesses who testified upon that trial also testified to substantially the same facts in this case.…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
This is a" companion case to that of I. IT. Williams v. The State, just decided, grew out of the same transaction, and was a similar prosecution for jail breaking.
I. No bill of exception having been reserved to the court’s overruling defendant’s application for continuance, he is not entitled to a revision of the ruling in this court. (Scott v. The State, 23 Texas Ct. Ap., 522.)
II. It appears from the record that at the last previous term of the court the jury commissioners had only drawn and selected jurors for three weeks of the next term. At the time they acted, the…
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