Kemper v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The defendant and the deceased were rival candidates for the office of constable at the time of the homicide, and much ill-feeling existed between them growing out of this circumstance and a former estrangement.
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The defendant and the deceased were rival candidates for the office of constable at the time of the homicide, and much ill-feeling existed between them growing out of this circumstance and a former estrangement. Two witnesses for the State who saw the killing testified that while they were in friendly conversation with the deceased, who was on horseback in the street of the little town where the homicide occurred, near the house of the justice of the peace, the defendant drove up rapidly in his buggy, and. when near them got out with his shotgun, and they heard the deceased say, “Bob, don’t…
1Opinion of the Court
SCOTT, Special Judge.
Appellant was indicted by the grand jury of Limestone County, Texas, charged with the murder of one B. D. Persons, by shooting him with a gun. The presiding judge of the District Court of Limestone County, on his own motion, ordered a change of venue to Ellis County, Texas, in which county the case went to trial on the 25th day of April, 1910, which resulted in a conviction of the defendant of the offense of manslaughter, and his punishment assessed was confinement in the penitentiary for a term of three years.
There are numerous bills of exception in the record which we…
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