Peddy v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Shelby. Tried below before Hon. S. W. Blunt, Special Judge. Appellant was jointly indicted with Fayette Harris, William Harris, Jr., and James Stanton, for the murder of Jo Shields. On application of defendants a severance was had. William Harris, Jr., was first put upon trial and convicted, his punishment being assessed at a life term in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the District Court of Shelby. Tried below before Hon. S. W. Blunt, Special Judge. Appellant was jointly indicted with Fayette Harris, William Harris, Jr., and James Stanton, for the murder of Jo Shields. On application of defendants a severance was had. William Harris, Jr., was first put upon trial and convicted, his punishment being assessed at a life term in the penitentiary. See his case, reported ante, p. 411. This appellant was next put upon trial, and his trial also resulted in a conviction for murder in the first degree, with the punishment assessed at a life term in the…
1Opinion of the Court
SIMKINS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder, and his punishment assessed at imprisonment for life, from which judgment he appeals to this court.
There are but two questions raised in this ease that have not already been considered in the companion case of William Harris, Jr. Harris v. The State, ante, p. 411.
1. Appellant complains that the court erred in permitting the evidence of Mrs. Pinson, taken before the examining court, to be read. Mrs. Pinson was the old lady, 70 years of age, upon whose place Jo Shields was living at the time he was taken out and hung by a mob. She testified at…
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