Livar v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hidalgo. Tried below before the Hon. J. C. Russell. The appellant was convicted in the first degree and awarded the death penalty, for the murder of Theodore Marx, in Hidalgo county, Texas, on the tenth day of December, 1887. ■ The record brings up no statement of the facts proved on the trial.
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Appeal from the District Court of Hidalgo. Tried below before the Hon. J. C. Russell. The appellant was convicted in the first degree and awarded the death penalty, for the murder of Theodore Marx, in Hidalgo county, Texas, on the tenth day of December, 1887. ■ The record brings up no statement of the facts proved on the trial. The appellant’s sixth bill of exceptions referred to in the opinion, recites that, the defendant being a Mexican, unable to speak the English language, or to make known what he desired to be asked of his witnesses, the court for a time permitted the interpreter sworn…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
This appeal is from a death penalty imposed by the verdict and judgment in the court below upon a conviction for murder of the first degree.
There are several bills of exception in the record which can not be determined because their materiality and pertinency could only be ascertained by a consideration of them in connection with the facts proven upon, the trial, and the record before us contains no statement of the facts established by the •evidence at the trial. In this category are the bills numbered 1, 5 and 8, relative to the rulings upon ,the application for…
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