Price v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Navarro. Tried below before Hon. Rufus Hardy. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the second degree; penalty, twenty years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged the defendant with the murder of one J. A. Beardoff, in Navarro County, on the 19th day of February, A. D. 1896, by shooting him with a gun. The parties "were brothers-in-law, the deceased having married defendant’s sister.
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Appeal from the District Court of Navarro. Tried below before Hon. Rufus Hardy. Appeal from a conviction for murder in the second degree; penalty, twenty years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged the defendant with the murder of one J. A. Beardoff, in Navarro County, on the 19th day of February, A. D. 1896, by shooting him with a gun. The parties "were brothers-in-law, the deceased having married defendant’s sister. The record does not disclose what was the origin of the trouble between the parties, but there had been several quarrels between defendant and deceased, and…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and given twenty years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. There is no bill of exceptions in the record. We will, however, notice such assignments of error as we deem necessary to a disposition of this case. The court charged on murder in the first and second degrees, manslaughter and self-defense. There is some slight evidence in the record of self-defense, and the court on this subject charged the jury substantially as follows: “If you believe the defendant killed the deceased, but further believe that, at…
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