Bluman v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Lee. Tried below before Hon. Beauregard BryaN. Appellant was convicted as an accomplice to the crime of arson, the indictment alleging that the fire was applied to the house by one Paul Kirschner and one George B. Jones, and that appellant, prior to the commission of the crime by said parties, “did unlawfully and willfully promise the said Paul Kirschner to pay him, the said Paul Kirschner, the sum of five hundred dollars to procure the…
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Appeal from the District Court of Lee. Tried below before Hon. Beauregard BryaN. Appellant was convicted as an accomplice to the crime of arson, the indictment alleging that the fire was applied to the house by one Paul Kirschner and one George B. Jones, and that appellant, prior to the commission of the crime by said parties, “did unlawfully and willfully promise the said Paul Kirschner to pay him, the said Paul Kirschner, the sum of five hundred dollars to procure the commission of said offense by the said Paul Kirschner, the said H. Bluman not being present at the commission of said…
1Opinion of the Court
SIMKINS, Judge.
Appellant was indicted and convicted as an accomplice in the offense of arson, and his punishment assessed at five years in the penitentiary, from which he appeals.
1. The court did not err in overruling the motion for a continuance. The witness Hudson is not shown to have been sufficiently familiar with the Bluman stock as to have formed any definite idea as to its value. Nor does it appear that his estimate could or ought to have had any weight with, the jury. If he had testified as appellant states he would, the testimony, in view of the facts proven, would have been probably…
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