Walker v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Galveston county. Tried below before the Hon. Sam. Dodge. The defendants were indicted by the grand jury of Galveston county, for the murder of Green Butler.
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Appeal from the Criminal Court of Galveston county. Tried below before the Hon. Sam. Dodge. The defendants were indicted by the grand jury of Galveston county, for the murder of Green Butler. The facts of the case are substantially as follows: On the 19th of May, 1872, between seven and eight o’clock in the evening, while Green Butler and Joe White were standing on the gallery at Green Butler’s residence, they having just stepped out from the supper table, two men rode up to the front gate of the yard around Butler’s residence, and one of them asked if they could get supper. Green Butler, the…
1Opinion of the CourtOgden, J.
On the 30th day of July, 1872, the appellants were tried before the Criminal Court for Galveston county, for the murder of Green Butler, and were convicted. Their motion for a new trial was overruled, and they have appealed and have assigned several errors for the reversal of the judg*385ment, which refer more directly to the charge of the court, and the conduct of the jurors during the progress of the trial
We do not propose to notice the assignments in their numerical order, but only such questions as are considered material to the proper disposition of the case now before us. Appellants…
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