Keaton v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Coleman. Tried below before Hon. J. 0. Woodward. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree; penalty, imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. This is a companion case to Jeff Taylor v. State, ante, p. 564. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Lee Johnson on June 9, 1898, by shooting him with a gun and pistol. The murder was committed in" the attempted perpetration of a train robbery.
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Appeal from the District Court of Coleman. Tried below before Hon. J. 0. Woodward. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree; penalty, imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. This is a companion case to Jeff Taylor v. State, ante, p. 564. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Lee Johnson on June 9, 1898, by shooting him with a gun and pistol. The murder was committed in" the attempted perpetration of a train robbery. The attempted robbery occurred about 10 o’clock at night at the north end of the switch or Y at Coleman Junction. The train was facing south with…
1Opinion of the Court
Appellant was convicted of the murder of Lee Johnson, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the pententiary for life. Appellant testified in his own behalf substantially as follows: "Myself, Bud Newman, Jeff Taylor, and Bill Taylor entered into an agreement to rob the express on the Gulf, Colorado Santa Fe Company's train at Coleman Junction. We first spoke of robbing it at Ballinger, but the Taylors said Coleman Junction would be the best place. They were acquainted with the place, so they said. We first talked about it about two months before we made the attempt. We agreed to come…
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