Creswell v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Tarrant. Tried belowr before John Hanna, Esq., Special Judge. The indictment charged the appellant with the murder of Lem Edwards, in Tarrant county, Texas, on the eighth day of October, 1869. The conviction is for murder in the first degree, with a life term in the penitentiary assessed as punishment. Ambrose Creswell, an uncle to the defendant, was the first witness presented by the State.
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Appeal from the District Court of Tarrant. Tried belowr before John Hanna, Esq., Special Judge. The indictment charged the appellant with the murder of Lem Edwards, in Tarrant county, Texas, on the eighth day of October, 1869. The conviction is for murder in the first degree, with a life term in the penitentiary assessed as punishment. Ambrose Creswell, an uncle to the defendant, was the first witness presented by the State. He testified that he was now a resident of Coleman county, and had been for the past five or six years. In October, 1869, he lived in Fort Worth, Tarrant county. The…
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
On the eighth day of October, 1869, Lem Edwards was shot and killed in Tarrant county, near his residence. In March, 1877, the defendant was indicted for the murder of said Edwards, and in February, 1883, he was convicted upon said indictment of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement for life in the penitentiary; from which conviction he has appealed to this court.
numerous errors in the proceedings and judgment have been assigned by defendant’s counsel, but we deem it necessary to discuss only a few of them, passing over those not noticed by us…
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