Morgan v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Under an indictment for the murder of one J. 0. Lochrey, defendant at the trial was convicted of manslaughter, his punishment being assessed at two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.
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Under an indictment for the murder of one J. 0. Lochrey, defendant at the trial was convicted of manslaughter, his punishment being assessed at two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The three eye-witnesses to the killing, viz., Joe Lochrey, a son of deceased, Ural Slack, and Bob Morgan, a brother of the defendant, testified at the trial, and there is so little, if any, conflict in their testimony, that it is only necessary to reproduce that of Ural Slack, who testified for the State, as follows: “On the 27th day of April, 1893, I started from Sipe Springs, in Comanche County, in…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
The appellant in this case was tried in the District Court of Brown County on an indictment charging him with the murder of one J. C. Lochrey. He was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment assessed at two years’ confinement in the penitentiary, and from the judgment and sentence in the case he prosecutes this appeal. The appellant reserved a number of bills of exception, but the only one we regard as material is the court’s charge on self-defense, in connection with the charge on provoking a difficulty by defendant.
The judge trying the ease gave an admirable charge on…
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