Williams v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Erath. Tried below before Hon. J. S. Straughan. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the second degree; penalty, eighteen years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of A. A. King on the 8th day of August, 1898, by stabbing him with a knife. The first appeal in this case will be found in Ex Parte Williams, 39 Texas Criminal Reports, 524, which was an application for bail.
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Appeal from the District Court of Erath. Tried below before Hon. J. S. Straughan. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the second degree; penalty, eighteen years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of A. A. King on the 8th day of August, 1898, by stabbing him with a knife. The first appeal in this case will be found in Ex Parte Williams, 39 Texas Criminal Reports, 524, which was an application for bail. The main facts are stated in that case, and the opinion below states the salient features of the evidence so fully that a further statement is…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of eighteen years; and he prosecutes this appeal.
The theory of the State, which was supported by evidence, was to the effect that the homicide was committed by appellant, Harry Williams, and Ms wife, on account of malice entertained toward deceased because of a publication concerning a fight between the wife of appellant and a negro woman. Inasmuch as this publication occasioned the homicide, we would state that deceased, Austin King, and John…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Holley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1898
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