Walker v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Hood County. STATEMENT. In Older to impart a clear understanding of the rulings of the court, so much of the inculpatory evidence as is not summarized in the opinion is here outlined. It was testified that, according to his own statement, the defendant went to the town of Weatherford on, April 29, the morning after the disappearance of Mathis.
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Appeal from Hood County. STATEMENT. In Older to impart a clear understanding of the rulings of the court, so much of the inculpatory evidence as is not summarized in the opinion is here outlined. It was testified that, according to his own statement, the defendant went to the town of Weatherford on, April 29, the morning after the disappearance of Mathis. Some time in Tuly,he stated to a witness, that he met Mathis in that town, on April 29,and inveigled him into a game of cards with himself and a stranger,that the stranger won $20 from Mathis which Mathis refused to pay the stranger,but…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Willson, J.-
This appeal is from a conviction of murder in the first degree; the murder of a W. B. Mathis, the penalty assessed being confinement in the penitentiary for life.
1. A motion in arrest of judgment having been made by the defendant, and overruled by the court, which motion is based upon alleged defects in the indictment, it is proper that we should first consider aud dispose of the questions presented by the motion.
After alleging, in the usual form, an assault upon W. B. Mathis, the indictment proceeds : “And that he, the said Lee Walker, him, the said W. B. Mathis, in…
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