Redman v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

—On July 2, 1907, the grand jury of Hill County, indicted appellant for the murder of J. C. Roberson on May 20, 1907. He was first tried in Hill County in 1907, convicted of murder in the first degree with the penalty of life imprisonment in the penitentiary. On appeal from that conviction this court reversed the case. It is reported in 52 Texas Crim. Rep., 591. The opinion on that appeal sufficiently states the case to make it unnecessary to make any further general statement thereof now.

After the case was reversed, the venue was properly changed from Hill to Ellis County,…