Lowe v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder. After verdict he raised the point that it should be set aside because of the illegality of the election of the special judge who tried the case.
It appears that the regular judge became an officer in the National Guard on the 19th day of July, 1917, and went on the payroll of the Federal government as an officer in the military service August 4, 1917. It appears that on the 16th of July, 1917, at a regular term of court, they elected the Hon. Garland Smith special judge, and that on August 1, 1917, while the special judge was presiding the…
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