Blocker v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bowie. Tried below before the Hon. W. P. McLean. The conviction in this case was in the first degree for the murder of G-. W. Wood, in Bowie county, Texas, on the eighth day of March, 1887. The penalty assessed by the verdict was a life term in the penitentiary. John W. Glowers was the first witness for the State. He testified that he knew the defendant, whom he identified in court, and that he knew Wood in his lifetime.
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Appeal from the District Court of Bowie. Tried below before the Hon. W. P. McLean. The conviction in this case was in the first degree for the murder of G-. W. Wood, in Bowie county, Texas, on the eighth day of March, 1887. The penalty assessed by the verdict was a life term in the penitentiary. John W. Glowers was the first witness for the State. He testified that he knew the defendant, whom he identified in court, and that he knew Wood in his lifetime. Wood met his death in Bowie county, Texas, in 1887, at about two hours after sun rise on a day the witness did not remember. He was killed…
1Opinion
ON MOTION FOR A REHEARING.
Willson, Judge.
In this case the appeal is from a conviction of murder in the first degree, the penalty assessed being confinement for life in the penitentiary.
At our last term at Tyler the cause was submitted on oral arguments and briefs for both parties, and we affirmed the conviction without delivering a written opinion. Counsel for defendant filed a motion for a rehearing and submitted the same upon oral argument and brief, and said motion was transferred to this branch of the court for decision.
It is strenuously insisted by counsel for the defendant that the…
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