Byrd v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Milam. Tried below before Hon. W. G. Taliaferro. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the second degree; penalty, twenty-five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of L. C. Alexander, on the ,12th day of July, 1897. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of twenty-five years; hence this appeal.
The court overruled appellant's motion for a continuance, to which he reserved his bill of exceptions. The motion was predicated on the absence of one John Nevils and Miss Eveline Wilder. The residence of John Nevils is stated to be unknown, and he is described as an Irishman and a day laborer, and it is alleged that he was present at the homicide, within sixty feet of the defendant and deceased at the time of the shooting;…
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