Ex Parte Martinez, Jr.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Taylor County. Original habeas corpus asking relief from a judgment of murder in the first degree inflicting the death penalty, relator claiming that he was prevented from giving notice of appeal by reason of mob violence.
1DissentDavidson, Presiding Judge
(dissenting).—On the 23d of July, 1911, appellant was arrested for the murder of Miss Emma Brown, the homicide having occurred the day before. He was subsequently placed in the county jail at Pecos City, the county seat of Eeeves County. S. J. Isaacks, the district judge of that judicial district, states under oath that he was notified of the homicide as well as of the arrest of the applicant precisely at 12 o’clock on the night of July 23, 1911. He was then at his home in Midland, about one hundred miles east of Pecos City. The train being an hour late, enabled him to catch it, which he did,…
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