Walker v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hood. Tried below before the Hon. T. L. ÍTugent. W. B. Mathis, an employe of the appellant’s father, disappeared from the residence of the latter, in Hood county, Texas, on the night of April 28, 1882, since which time he has never been seen alive by any of the parties who testified upon this trial.
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Appeal from the District Court of Hood. Tried below before the Hon. T. L. ÍTugent. W. B. Mathis, an employe of the appellant’s father, disappeared from the residence of the latter, in Hood county, Texas, on the night of April 28, 1882, since which time he has never been seen alive by any of the parties who testified upon this trial. On or about the tenth day of the following August the mutilated body of a man was found floating in the Brazos river, at a point' near Richmond, Fort Bend county, Texas, a distance, by the meanderings of the river, of between six and nine hundred miles from the…
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
This appeal is from a conviction of murder in the first degree—the murder of one W. B. Mathis—the penalty assessed being confinement in the penitentiary for life.
1. A motion in arrest of judgment having been made by defendant, and overruled by the court, which motion is based upon alleged defects in the indictment, it is proper that we should first consider and dispose of the questions presented by the motion.
After alleging, in the usual form, an assault upon W. B. Mathis, the indictment proceeds, “and that he, the said Lee Walker, him, the said W. B. Mathis, in some way and…
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