De Alberts v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Harris. Tried below before Hon. E. D. Gavin. This appeal is from a conviction for forgery, the punishment assessed being a term of two years in the penitentiary. The opinion states the essential facts in the case.
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Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Harris. Tried below before Hon. E. D. Gavin. This appeal is from a conviction for forgery, the punishment assessed being a term of two years in the penitentiary. The opinion states the essential facts in the case. The charge of the court upon insanity was as follows: “You are instructed, that neither intoxication nor temporary insanity of mind produced by the voluntary recent use of ardent spirits constitutes any excuse for the commission of crime, nor does intoxication mitigate either the degree or penalty of crime, but evidence of temporary…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
The appellant in this case was tried under an indictment charging him with forgery, was found guilty, and his punishment assessed at two years in the penitentiary, and from the judgment and sentence of the lower court he prosecutes this appeal.
The appellant assigns as error the overruling of his motion for a continuance. This is the third application, and shows a want of diligence. The appellant in this case was indicted on the 7th of June, 1894, and was immediately arrested under a capias in said cause. He applied for a continuance at the October Term for the want of certain…
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