Lienpo v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Wise. Tried helow before Hon. J. W. Patterson. The conviction in this case was in the second degree for the murder of. Jack Connell, in Wise County, Texas, on the 27th day of May, 1889. The penalty assessed against the appellant was a term of sixteen years in the penitentiary. Mr. Watson, the first witness for the State, testified that he and ¡Nelson were, joint proprietors of a saloon in Rhome, Wise County, Texas.
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Appeal from the District Court of Wise. Tried helow before Hon. J. W. Patterson. The conviction in this case was in the second degree for the murder of. Jack Connell, in Wise County, Texas, on the 27th day of May, 1889. The penalty assessed against the appellant was a term of sixteen years in the penitentiary. Mr. Watson, the first witness for the State, testified that he and ¡Nelson were, joint proprietors of a saloon in Rhome, Wise County, Texas. Witness went into his saloon about five o'clock on the evening of Sunday, May 26, 1889. He was joined in that saloon .by the defendant, who asked,…
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
It appears from the testimony that defendant’s statements made to the justice of the peace, as testified to by the witnesses Hill and Gilbert, were voluntarily made by him after he had been fully warned and cautioned by said justice of the peace that any statement he might make about the killing might be used in evidence against him. We think said statements were admissible as evidence against him under article 750 of 'the Code of Criminal Procedure. That at the time of making said statements he was in an intoxicated condition did not render his said statements incompetent…
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