Skaggs v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Comal. Tried below before Hon. T. M. Paschal. On a trial in the court below, on an indictment charging him with the-murder of one J. W. Erkles, on the 25th day of September, 1891, in Comal County, by shooting him with a pistol, appellant was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and his punishment affixed at five years-confinement in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the District Court of Comal. Tried below before Hon. T. M. Paschal. On a trial in the court below, on an indictment charging him with the-murder of one J. W. Erkles, on the 25th day of September, 1891, in Comal County, by shooting him with a pistol, appellant was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and his punishment affixed at five years-confinement in the penitentiary. The essential facts pertaining to the mode and manner of the killing are all contained in the dying declarations made by deceased, reduced to-writing, and signed by him before his death; and it is…
1Opinion of the Court
HURT, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, for the murder of J. W. Erkles. If the history of the facts and circumstances attending the homicide contained in the dying declarations are true, we think appellant was justly convicted of murder in the second degree, provided there was no reversible error or errors made by the court in admitting or rejecting evidence or instructions to the jury.
Counsel for appellant contend that there was error in admitting the statement of Mrs. Skaggs made to Mason Erkles, namely, that she knew that her husband (defendant) was…
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