Batson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Willis Davis, on the 14th day of April, 1896, by hanging him by the neck with a rope and shooting him with a gun. On the fourteenth day thereafter, viz: on the 28th of April, 1896, appellant was convicted for the murder with penalty as above stated.
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The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Willis Davis, on the 14th day of April, 1896, by hanging him by the neck with a rope and shooting him with a gun. On the fourteenth day thereafter, viz: on the 28th of April, 1896, appellant was convicted for the murder with penalty as above stated. The following are the material facts as shown on the trial of the-case: Jake Bledsoe testified: “I knew Willis Davis; he was sometimes called ‘Nine’ or ‘Nine Spots,’ as a nickname. Willis Davis is my stepson. He and I were working for Mr. Mclver, across the river, and came over here to cut and…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and given forty-five years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. It appears from the record that on the 14th of April, 1896, appellant, Steve Batson, in company with one Jim Bell, left Madisonville, to go to the home of appellant, some ten miles distant. On the way they met a negro by the name of Bledsoe, and another negro, Will Davis (the deceased), in the road. They stopped, and some conversation ensued. The defendant remarked to Will Davis that he had promised he would kill him the first time he met him,…
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