Rhodes v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Gonzales. Tried below before Hon. M. Kennon. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the second degree; penalty, seven years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The important facts are fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
HEHDERSOH, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of seven years; hence this appeal.
The indictment charged Claud Rhodes, Year by Rhodes, and Ed. Rhodes with the murder of R. R. Coleman, by shooting him with a pistol. The circumstances attending the killing show that a state of ill feeling existed between the Rhodeses on one side and the deceased on the other, and various expressions of ill will and bitter feeling were proven to have been made by members of the Rhodes family, including Bill Rhodes,…
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