Giles v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. Chas. F. Clint. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, twenty-five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Appellant was charged by the indictment with the murder of Henrietta Giles (his wife), on April 6, 1901, by shooting her with a gun. Defendant and his wife had separated, and he had frequently threatened that he would kill her if she did not return and live with him.
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Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. Chas. F. Clint. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, twenty-five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Appellant was charged by the indictment with the murder of Henrietta Giles (his wife), on April 6, 1901, by shooting her with a gun. Defendant and his wife had separated, and he had frequently threatened that he would kill her if she did not return and live with him. She was rooming at the boarding house of one Laura Ross, which, as far as the record shows, was a respectable house.…
1Opinion of the Court
HEHDERSOH, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of twenty-five years.
During the trial of the case the State introduced a part of the testimony or examination of defendant taken before the grand jury, the portion of said examination being as follows: “My name is Jeff Giles. On the night of April 6, 1901, about 3 a. m., at the house of Laura Ross, at the corner of Young and Jefferson streets, I entered the house from the rear, passed through the kitchen, and the door to the room that my wife was…
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