J. R. v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Navarro. Tried below before Hon. Bufus Hardy. J. B. Floyd and Erwin Floyd were jointly indicted, tried, and convicted for the murder of Frank Patterson. The conviction is for murder-in the second degree, the punishment assessed being confinement in the penitentiary for twenty-five years against each of them.
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Appeal from the District Court of Navarro. Tried below before Hon. Bufus Hardy. J. B. Floyd and Erwin Floyd were jointly indicted, tried, and convicted for the murder of Frank Patterson. The conviction is for murder-in the second degree, the punishment assessed being confinement in the penitentiary for twenty-five years against each of them. Mrs. Patterson, widow of deceased, witness for the State, testified that her husband, Frank Patterson, was killed on the 18th day of September, 1890, in Navarro County, by Erwin Floyd and his father, J. R. Floyd. “It is 137 steps from my house to Floyd’s…
1Opinion of the Court
WHITE, Presiding Judge.
Appellants were jointly indicted, tried, and convicted for the murder of one Frank Patterson. They were each found guilty of murder of the second degree and the punishment of each affixed at twenty-five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Deceased was killed in the public road whilst passing the house of appellant J. R. Floyd. He was shot with a Winchester rifle by appellant Erwin Floyd, who was at the time of the shooting inside of or upon the gallery of his father’s house. Appellant J. R. Floyd and deceased had had several previous altercations and were carrying…
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