Crook v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Grayson, on change of venue from Laniar. Tried below before A. C. Turner, Esq., Special Judge.
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Appeal from the District Court of Grayson, on change of venue from Laniar. Tried below before A. C. Turner, Esq., Special Judge. The indictment in this case charges the murder of James H. Black by John Middleton, in Lamar county, Texas, on the sixteenth day of November, 1884, and that the appellant and one Newt Harris were accomplices to the said murder of Black by the said Middleton; the particular acts charged against them being that they did, on the twelfth day of November, 1884, advise and encourage the said Middleton to kill and murder the said Black, and that they did prepare and…
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
Eliminating surplusage from that portion ©f the indictment which charges the defendant and Newt Harris with being accomplices to the murder of James H. Black, it reads as follows: “ That about November 12, 1884, in said county and State, one Mack Crook and one Newt Harris did unlawfully, and with their express malice aforethought, advise and encourage the said John Middleton to commit said offense of murder before the said John Middleton did kill and murder the said James H. Black, and did prepare and furnish said John Middleton with a gun for the purpose of aiding and…
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