Cogdell v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hill. Tried below before Hon. ,W. Poindexter. Appeal below from a conviction of manslaughter; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Appellant was charged by the indictment with the murder of Jesse Watson, on the first day of October, 1898, by striking him with a rock.
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Appeal from the District Court of Hill. Tried below before Hon. ,W. Poindexter. Appeal below from a conviction of manslaughter; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Appellant was charged by the indictment with the murder of Jesse Watson, on the first day of October, 1898, by striking him with a rock. The following concise statement of the essential facts adduced at the trial is taken from appellant’s brief, viz: The undisputed facts are that J. P. Williams, the father-in-law of the deceased, after dark appeared at the front door of a barber shop in the town of Covington and…
1Opinion of the Court
HEiSTDEESOU, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.
Appellant, during the trial, put Sid Huddleston on the stand, and proved by him a threat on the part of deceased against defendant, made on the evening of the homicide, only a short time before it occurred. On cross-examination the county attorney was permitted to ask said witness if he did not, at a certain time and place, subsequent to a former trial of the case, state to Charley Cleveland, “that they had not done him right; that after he had accommodated them…
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