Early v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of the city of McKinney. Tried below before the Hon. Silas Hare. The bill of indictment was found by the grand jury of Cooke county on the 23d of August, 1873, and charged that William Early did, on the 24th of February, 1873, kill and murder Charles M. Winters, in the county of Cooke, of his malice aforethought, etc.
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Appeal from the Criminal District Court of the city of McKinney. Tried below before the Hon. Silas Hare. The bill of indictment was found by the grand jury of Cooke county on the 23d of August, 1873, and charged that William Early did, on the 24th of February, 1873, kill and murder Charles M. Winters, in the county of Cooke, of his malice aforethought, etc. The indictment contained three counts, this first of which charged that, the homicide "was committed with a pistol, the second that it was committed with a large hackberry stick, and the third that a ■stone or rock was the fatal instrument…
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, J.
On the 20th day of August, 1873, an indictment was filed in the district court of Cooke county, Texas, charging the appellant, William Early, with having, on the 24th day of February, 1873, in Cooke county, murdered one Charles M. Winters. When this indictment was presented and filed, the Hon. C. C. Binkley was judge of the district court of Cooke county. The case was continued at the two terms subsequent to its filing, on the application of the defendant. At the March term, 1874, the Hon. J. M. Lindsay had become judge of the twelfth judicial district, composed of the counties of Grayson,…
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