Jones v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Harrison. Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Booty. The opinion states the case. The verdict gave the appellant four years in the pentitentiary.
1Opinion of the CourtWinkler, J.
The appellant was tried and convicted on the charge of wilfully burning the cotton-house of Solomon Dunn, with 6,000 pounds of cotton therein, charged to have been committed in Harrison County, December 20, 1875.
The main grounds relied on for the reversal of the judgment are, first, that the charge of the court is defective and insufficient, in that it does not give to the jury the statutory definition of a house; and, second, that the *131charge as given was upon the weight of evidence, and calculated to mislead the jury, to the prejudice of the accused.
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2Cases cited3 opinions
- Bishop v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1875
- Tracy v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1875
- Jackson v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1860