Stevens v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Anderson, on a change of venue from the. county of Henderson. .Tried below before Hon. A. D. Lipscomb. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree; penalty, imprisonment for life in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the District Court of Anderson, on a change of venue from the. county of Henderson. .Tried below before Hon. A. D. Lipscomb. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree; penalty, imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. The appellant was charged by the indictment, together with Joe Wilkcrson, Walter Wilkerson, W. B. Brooks, Sam Hall, W. A. Johns, and John Gaddis, with the murder of Jim Humphries by hanging him with a rope to a tree, on the 23d day of May, 1899, in Henderson County. At the same term of the court each of the above joint defendants was separately…
1Opinion of the Court
The grand jury of Henderson County returned an indictment against Joe Wilkerson, W. Wilkerson, W.B. Brooks, Sam Hall, W.A. Johns, Bob Stevens (appellant), and John Gaddis, charging that they "did on or about the 23d of May, 1899, in said county, unlawfully and with malice aforethought, kill and murder Jim Humphries, by then and there hanging him with a rope to a tree." At the same term of the court each of the above parties was separately indicted in two different indictments, for the murder of John and George Humphries. John and Arthur Greenhaw and Polk Weeks were separately indicted in…
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