Thompson v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bell. Tried below before Hon. WA. Blackburn. This conviction was in the second degree for the murder of W. F. Hall. The penalty awarded by the verdict was a term of seven years in the penitentiary. The rulings of the court on this appeal do not necessitate a summary of the evidence adduced on the trial
1Opinion of the Court
WILLSON, Judge.
Defendant’s bill of exception relating to the testimony of Mrs. Dobbs, Mrs. Whitaker, and Robert Whitaker shows no error. The bill is indefinite and confused in its statement, so much so that we are unable to learn from it the facts upon which the ruling of the court complained of was based. As far as we can determine from the bill and the explanation thereof by the trial judge, no error was committed respecting the testimony of said witnesses. We infer from the bill that the prosecution sought to impeach some of its own witnesses by proving that they had made statements…
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