McKinney v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Erath. Tried below before Hon. C. K. Bell. This appeal is from a judgment of conviction for murder in the first degree, the punishment assessed being imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. The murdered party was one R. L. Haley, and the crime was committed in Erath County on the 30th day of July, 1892, about dark.
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Appeal from the District Court of Erath. Tried below before Hon. C. K. Bell. This appeal is from a judgment of conviction for murder in the first degree, the punishment assessed being imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. The murdered party was one R. L. Haley, and the crime was committed in Erath County on the 30th day of July, 1892, about dark. Deceased (Haley) and defendant were neighbors, living but a short distance from each other, and there was a lane that had been left by the deceased between the two places. The parties do not appear to have been upon good neighborly terms for…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of the murder of R. L.' Haley, and his punishment assessed at confinement for life in the penitentiary; hence this appeal.
1. The application for a continuance was properly overruled. The alleged absent testimony is not probably true.
2. The court did not err in overruling defendant’s cause for challenge to the jurors White and Larner. There had not been formed or established in their minds any such conclusion as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant as disqualified them from sitting as jurors in the case. The jurors were excused peremptorily. The…
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