Champ v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Colorado. Tried below before Hon. Geo. McCormick. Appellant was indicted for the murder of one Jerre Ford, by cutting and stabbing him with a knife. The parties, defendant and deceased, were negroes, and the killing occurred at night at a festival, where a large number of negroes were congregated.
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Appeal from the District Court of Colorado. Tried below before Hon. Geo. McCormick. Appellant was indicted for the murder of one Jerre Ford, by cutting and stabbing him with a knife. The parties, defendant and deceased, were negroes, and the killing occurred at night at a festival, where a large number of negroes were congregated. As stated in the opinion, there is great conflict in the testimony of the sixteen or eighteen witnesses who testified to the circumstances attendant upon the homicide. According to some of these witnesses, defendant rushed into the house with an open knife in his…
1Opinion of the Court
HURT, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed by the jury at five years in the penitentiary.
The statement of facts contains ample proof of murder in the second degree, proof of manslaughter, and of self-defense. We have never examined a statement of facts in which there was so. much conflict in the evidence, or, as we think, more perjury. Murder in the second degree, manslaughter, and self-defense being presented, was the law correctly given in charge to the j ury upon these phases of the case ? Appellant requested one instruction,…
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