Lindsey v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Palo Pinto. Tried below before Hon. J. S. Straugiian. The appellant and his brother, Dove Lindsey, were jointly indicted and jointly tried for the murder of E. G. Ivey.
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Appeal from the District Court of Palo Pinto. Tried below before Hon. J. S. Straugiian. The appellant and his brother, Dove Lindsey, were jointly indicted and jointly tried for the murder of E. G. Ivey. At their trial they were each convicted of manslaughter, the punishment assessed against this appellant being imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of four-years and six months; and the punishment assessed against Dove Lindsey being two years’ confinement in the reformatory, he being under sixteen years of age. Will Lindsey alone prosecutes this appeal. The case is sufficiently stated in…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
The appellant is this case ivas convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of four years and six months, 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. The application was based upon the absence of the witness Newt Sanders, alleged to reside in Parker County. The diligence used to procure said witness was sufficient, but, in our opinion, it is not probably true that he would testify as alleged in the…
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