Best v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
By the wife of the deceased it was shown that on the morning of the homicide her husband was over in the east field plowing; that she heard four shots, and walking to the edge of the gallery soon thereafter saw her husband coming towards the house nearly in a run; that she went to meet him, and asking what was the matter, he told her that defendant had shot him; and upon being asked by his wife what the deceased was doing at the time, deceased answered, “Nothing;” and…
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By the wife of the deceased it was shown that on the morning of the homicide her husband was over in the east field plowing; that she heard four shots, and walking to the edge of the gallery soon thereafter saw her husband coming towards the house nearly in a run; that she went to meet him, and asking what was the matter, he told her that defendant had shot him; and upon being asked by his wife what the deceased was doing at the time, deceased answered, “Nothing;” and further said that defendant cursed him and slapped at him, and that deceased slapped back at defendant with his hand, and that…
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
Appellant was charged by indictment preferred in the District Court of Motley County, on June 1, 1909, with the murder of one Charles H. Hand by shooting him with a pistol. Thereafter the venue of the ease was changed to Baylor County, and upon a trial had in the last named county on August 20, appellant was found guilty of murder in the second degree and his punishment assessed at confinement in the State penitentiary for a period of ten years.
The killing was admitted, and was defended on the ground that it was done in self-defense. There was no eyewitness to the killing except…
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