Williams v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Harris. Tried below before Hon. J. K. P. Gillespie. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Appellant and Burnett Williams and Harold Williams were jointly charged by the indictment with the murder of A. E. Lipcsey, on the 17th day of July, 1902, by shooting him with a pistol, and by beating and striikng him with sticks and clubs.
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Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Harris. Tried below before Hon. J. K. P. Gillespie. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Appellant and Burnett Williams and Harold Williams were jointly charged by the indictment with the murder of A. E. Lipcsey, on the 17th day of July, 1902, by shooting him with a pistol, and by beating and striikng him with sticks and clubs. They were jointly tried, D. E. Williams, appellant, being convicted, and the two other defendants being acquitted. The following, taken from the brief…
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years.
Appellant’s son was working for deceased, Dr. De Lipcsey, as office boy, and on account of .some indignity offered by deceased to said boy, appellant and two other sons went to the office of deceased, and, meeting deceased, asked him why he pulled his boy’s ears and nose. Some words followed between appellant and deceased; thereupon appellant’s two sons began to beat deceased over the head with billiard cues, deceased retreating into an…
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