Hamblin v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
. Appeal from the District Court of Bell. Tried below before Hon. J. M. Furman. Appeal from a conviction of. murder in the second degree; penalty, fifty years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
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. Appeal from the District Court of Bell. Tried below before Hon. J. M. Furman. Appeal from a conviction of. murder in the second degree; penalty, fifty years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant, in three counts, with the murder of Sallie Baney, on the 10th day of December, 1898; first, by ways, means, and manner and with instruments and weapons to the grand jurors unknown; second, by striking her with a hatchet and by choking, strangling, and torturing her; third, .by striking, wounding, bruising, choking, strangling, and torturing her by means and manner and…
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and her punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for fifty years, and she appeals.
Appellant’s first assignment of error is: “That the verdict of the jury is contrary to the law and the evidence (1) because the evidence fails to establish to a reasonable and moral certainty that Sallie Raney, deceased, came to her death .by violence; (2) because the evidence fails to establish to a reasonable and moral certainty the defendant’s complicity in the commision of the alleged crime; (3) it is equally as probable from…
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