Habel v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from one of the District Courts of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. R. E. Burke. Under an indictment charging him with the murder of Ed Gillette, in Dallas County, Texas, on the 18th day of September, 1889, the appellant was convicted of manslaughter and his punishment was assessed at a term of two years in the penitentiary. A circumstantial statement of the facts proved on the trial is not essential to this report.
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Appeal from one of the District Courts of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. R. E. Burke. Under an indictment charging him with the murder of Ed Gillette, in Dallas County, Texas, on the 18th day of September, 1889, the appellant was convicted of manslaughter and his punishment was assessed at a term of two years in the penitentiary. A circumstantial statement of the facts proved on the trial is not essential to this report. The ruling announced in the last head note is the only one in connection with which it is necessary to summarize the evidence. The proof bearing upon the question involved…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the lower court of manslaughter, and given two years in the penitentiary.
Appellant was indicted and put upon his trial for murder. The record sufficiently shows that the court ordered the summoning of the special venire out of which the jury was to be selected for the trial of the case, and the objection to the transcript in that particular based upon the rulings in Steagald's case, 22 Texas Court of Appeals, 486, is not maintainable.
As to other objections to the special venires for talesmen, it is first-urgently insisted that the same should…
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