Hornsby v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bell. Tried below before the Honorable M. B. Blair. Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, death. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
—The appeal is from a judgment condemning appellant to suffer death for the murder of J. N. Weatherby.
The body of the deceased, who apparently had been dead twelve or fourteen hours, was found about seven and a half miles from the town of Brownwood on the 19th of October, 1920.
Willie Carter, an accomplice, testified that the appellant tilled the deceased on the 18th day of October, put the body in an automobile! belonging to deceased and deposited it at the point where it was found. This accomplice also testified that he and appellant remained in company with each…
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