Hays v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of El Paso County of murder, and given seven years in the penitentiary.

Ralph Hardin was an eye-witness to this homicide, and on the examining trial of appellant gave damaging testimony against him. Same was reduced to writing. The homicide was in 1923, and this trial in 1925. Soon after the homicide Hardin disappeared and does not seem to have been located until two days before this trial. The case had been set in January, 1925, but was passed because of the illness of Wit nesses, and then continued by the State partly because…