Crockett v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Kaufman. Tried below before Hon. J. E. Dillard. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, fifteen years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Harrison Lewis, on the 16th day of January, 1902, by shooting him with a pistol.
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Appeal from the District Court of Kaufman. Tried below before Hon. J. E. Dillard. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, fifteen years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Harrison Lewis, on the 16th day of January, 1902, by shooting him with a pistol. Appellant and deceased, Harrison Lewis, had become mortal enemies from some cause not developed in the record,, and they had been threatening and avoiding each other for some time. Deceased was a very dangerous man when under the influence of liquor, and he had made…
1Opinion of the Court
HEEDERSOH, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of fifteen years; hence this appeal.
Appellant offered to prove by the witness Gus Ward, that on the night of the homicide, and about twenty-five minutes before it occurred, he was passing the depot in the town of Forney, where the homicide was committed, and heard some one in the dark, addressing another, say: “Harrison Lewis is going to kill Grat Crockett ;” that he did not recognize the party speaking or the one addressed, but neither of them was…
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