Boyd v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Wood. Tried below before the Hon. W. B. Heath. Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case. On question of intent to kill and negligent homicide: Beddit v. State, 47 S. W. Bep., 995; Morton v State, 71 S. W. Bep., 281. On question of court’s failure to charge on manslaughters Johnson r. State 42 Texas Grim.
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Appeal from the District Court of Wood. Tried below before the Hon. W. B. Heath. Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case. On question of intent to kill and negligent homicide: Beddit v. State, 47 S. W. Bep., 995; Morton v State, 71 S. W. Bep., 281. On question of court’s failure to charge on manslaughters Johnson r. State 42 Texas Grim. Bep., 377; Taylor v. State, 51 S. W. Bep., 1106; Branch’s Crim. Law, see. 504. On question o* general reputation and suspended sentence: Simonds v. State, 76 Texas Crim- Bep., 487.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVlDSOB, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder, his pun-ishmen Demg assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.
The State’s- theory of the case is practically made by the testimony -of Gallagher, In substance, that witness testified that he, defendant, and Farris were sitting in a restaurant in Alba, Wood County, when the deceased came in. The deceased carried a bundle showing he had made purchases which were in the sack. There are lignite coal mines in that immediate vicinity and deceased was an employee of the mining •company. The suggestion was made by one of the three that…
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