Spangler v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Clay. Tried below before Hon. A. H. Carrigan. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, fifty years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The record in the case and especially the statement of the facts is very voluminous.
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Appeal from the District Court of Clay. Tried below before Hon. A. H. Carrigan. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, fifty years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The record in the case and especially the statement of the facts is very voluminous. But the material facts immediately connected with the homicide are so fully stated in the opinion that a further statement is unnecessary; and the facts pertaining to the questions discussed need no further statement to illustrate them. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Mrs. S. E. Whitesides, on the…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDEBSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of fifty years, and he prosecutes this appeal.
The evidence shows that deceased, Mrs. S. E. Whitesides, lived on a place of defendant, or one he had leased, in the country, some seven or eight miles from the town of Henrietta, the county seat. They appear to have had some business arrangement by which deceased was to live on the place, and pasture certain cattle on defendant’s inclosed land or pasture; and, in consideration of the use of said…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- State v. SterrettSupreme Court of Iowa · 1885
- Fitzpatrick v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1897
- Rhea v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1897
- White v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1895
- Woodring v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1895
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- Stern v. State Ex Rel. AnselCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1994
- Wisdom v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1901
- Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1917
- Spangler v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1900
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