Self v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Fort Bend. Tried below before Hon. T. S. Reese. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the second degree; penalty, fifty years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the District Court of Fort Bend. Tried below before Hon. T. S. Reese. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the second degree; penalty, fifty years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Appellant was indicted for the murder of Reuben Ewing by shooting him with a pistol, on the 34th day of December, 1896. The testimony shows substantially that Self, the appellant, was a carpenter and builder, and that he had made a contract with Ewing, the deceased, to make some repairs on Ewing’s dwelling-house, which was about a mile below the town of Richmond. The contract stipulated that the price…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of fifty years; hence this appeal.
Appellant excepted to the action of the court in permitting the State to prove by the witness Miles that, on the night before the shooting, appellant came to him in the town of Richmond, “and asked witness if deceased did not have a reputation of getting after people with a knife and witness replied that the only thing he had ever heard against deceased was that he had run one George Phillips with a dirk, and…
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