Stichtd v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from, the County Court of Guadalupe. Tried below before the Hon. J. T. McKee. The slander charged against the appellant was that he imputed a want of chastity to Christina Dolle, a female, by stating, in the hearing of several witnesses, that the said Christina Dolle was a whore, and had never done anything since she came to Texas, but acted as a whore for negroes. The penalty assessed against the appellant was a fine of one hundred dollars.
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Appeal from, the County Court of Guadalupe. Tried below before the Hon. J. T. McKee. The slander charged against the appellant was that he imputed a want of chastity to Christina Dolle, a female, by stating, in the hearing of several witnesses, that the said Christina Dolle was a whore, and had never done anything since she came to Texas, but acted as a whore for negroes. The penalty assessed against the appellant was a fine of one hundred dollars. Fritz Dolle was the first witness for the State. He testified that he lived in Guadalupe county, Texas, and was the son of the Christina Dolle…
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
In the statement of facts before us there is no evidence showing the time of the commission of the alleged offense. This is fatal to the conviction, and the Assistant *425Attorney General confesses the error. (Temple v. The State, 15 Texas Ct. App., 304.)
Opinion delivered May 9, 1888.
A novel question "is presented in the record. In the information the alleged slanderous words are set forth in the English language. On the trial, over the objections of the defendant, the State was permitted to prove slanderous words uttered by the defendant in the German language, said words, when…
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