Douglas v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted on a charge of murder in the District Court of Erath County, on July 12, 1909, the jury fixing the grade of murder as murder in the second degree and assessing his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of forty-one years.

The appeal in the case raises some very interesting and novel questions and in view of the penalty as well as character of the questions raised in the record we shall treat the case at more length perhaps than the difficulty of the questions presented by the record might ordinarily seem to require. All the parties…