Washington v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Matagorda. Tried below before the Hon.' Wm. H. Burkhart. At the June term, 1873, of the District Court of Matagorda county, the grand jury presented an indictment charging that one George Washington, on the 17th day of May, A. D. 1873, in the county of Matagorda, did, willfully, unlawfully, fraudulently, deceitfully, and falsely pretend and represent to Galen Hodges that Conrad Frantz had authorized him, the said George Washington, to purchase of the said Galen…
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Appeal from Matagorda. Tried below before the Hon.' Wm. H. Burkhart. At the June term, 1873, of the District Court of Matagorda county, the grand jury presented an indictment charging that one George Washington, on the 17th day of May, A. D. 1873, in the county of Matagorda, did, willfully, unlawfully, fraudulently, deceitfully, and falsely pretend and represent to Galen Hodges that Conrad Frantz had authorized him, the said George Washington, to purchase of the said Galen Hodges, on the credit of him, the said Conrad Frantz, the articles hereinafter described, which said pretense and…
1Opinion of the Court
Reeves, Associate Justice.
There being no statement of facts in the record, the charge of the court and the ver*585diet of the jury, as being contrary to the evidence as alleged in the motion for a new trial, cannot be considered.
The objection presented by the motion for a new trial, that one of the jurors was incompetent to sit upon the jury, and that the defendant did not have an impartial trial, is not presented in a proper form to be revised. The judgment sets out the names of the jurors, from which it appears that Whitley was a member of the jury; but there is no evidence in the record to…
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