Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Nunn

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 18, 1933No. 15791Published

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The appeal is from an order of the district court of El Paso county refusing the appellant’s-application, by way of habeas corpus, for bail.

The appellant is under indictment for the murder of James Hoover. It is understood from the evidence that the appellant Nunn and James Hoover and several other persons were in a. place where cotton was stored. Hoover was using a knife adapted to sampling cotton. While other witnesses were about their affairs, one of them heard a noise and observed Hoover lying on the ground and the appellant standing over or near him with an iron…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Ex parte AdamsCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1931
  2. Ex Parte PeddyCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1931

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