Stouard v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Shackelford, on change of venue from Stephens. Tried below before the Hon. T. H. Conner. The conviction was in the second degree for the murder of W. D. Stouard, in Stephens county, Texas, on the eighth day of April, 1887. The penalty assessed against the appellant, who is shown to be the son of the deceased, was a term of sixty years in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the District Court of Shackelford, on change of venue from Stephens. Tried below before the Hon. T. H. Conner. The conviction was in the second degree for the murder of W. D. Stouard, in Stephens county, Texas, on the eighth day of April, 1887. The penalty assessed against the appellant, who is shown to be the son of the deceased, was a term of sixty years in the penitentiary. The trial in the court below was concluded on the ninth day of May, 1888, and the appeal was prosecuted to the Austin term, 1888, of this court. The case was submitted at that branch, but was taken under…
1Opinion of the Court
Hurt, Judge.
This conviction is for the homicide of W. D. Stouard, the appellant being convicted of murder in the second degree, with punishment fixed at sixty years in the penitentiary.
Mrs. Jane Stouard was separately indicted for the same offense, the indictments against each being presented in the district court of Stephens county, at the May term, 1887. When the case was called at the said term, the defendant James Stouard answered ready. Afterwards, on May 25, 1887, after having exhausted a venire of two hundred men, the district attorney moved for a change of venue to Shackelford county,…
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