Nixon v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

Appellant was indicted in the District Court of Lampasas County for the murder of Tom Brown. He was on trial convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

There are a great number of questions raised in the appeal, but we deem it necessary to consider only a few of them. The most important question perhaps arising in the record is the action of the court in admitting the testimony of one Ruth Cameron, claimed to have been taken on the examining- trial proceedings had on the day of the homicide. This testimony…