Johnson v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of murder by the District Court of Lamb County, to which the case had been transferred on a change of venue, and was given a sentence of nine years in the penitentiary.

At a former trial in Castro County he was given three years, and upon appeal to this court the case was reversed. See Johnson v. State, 135 Texas Crim. Rep., 248; 117 S. W. (2d) 1100. A statement of the case as given in that opinion is herein referred to for a better understanding of the facts before us.

Appellant had nine bills of exception dealing principally with one question in…