Sellers and Mansfield v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Jefferson. Tried below before the Hon, W, H. Pope. Appeal from a conviction of assault with intent to murder; penalty, seven years imprisonment in the penitentiary against each defendant. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
—This case comes to us in rather a singular condition. The appellants were jointly -indicted charged with assault with intent to murder upon Alex Brown and John Orby and the case throughout was submitted as for an assault upon both the parties named. The statement of facts is in considerable confusion. We gather that there must have been another trial of probably one Prater to which the witnesses frequently refer. There is direct testimony that the appellant Sellers with a knife seriously cut and stabbed Brown, and before he did so that he said, “Let me kill that man,” and then…
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