Graham v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Coryell. Tried below before S. F.. Duffle, Special Judge. The conviction in this case was in the second degree for the murder of' J. H. Clawson, and the penalty assessed by the jury was a term of twenty years in the penitentiary. The rulings of the court on this appeal do not require a statement of.' the facts proved on the trial.
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
Most of the errors complained of in the-defendant’s motion for new trial and assignments of error in the court below, and so ably argued and discussed in the brief of counsel for appellant in this court, relate to the charge of the trial court. But no ex*583ceptions were reserved to the charge, and there were no refused special instructions for defendant. The charge may be liable to some of the criticisms urged against particular portions, but there being no special exceptions, and none of the supposed errors being of a fundamental character, or such as, under all of the…
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