Cecil v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. Charles F. Clint. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, fifty years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Joe Gwinn, on the 7th day of July, 1900, by stabbing him with a knife, and by stabbing and cutting him with some sharp instrument.
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Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. Charles F. Clint. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, fifty years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Joe Gwinn, on the 7th day of July, 1900, by stabbing him with a knife, and by stabbing and cutting him with some sharp instrument. The following is the statement of the facts as made in appellant’s brief: On Saturday, July 7th, the deceased, Joe Gwinn, and the principal State witness, E. M. Brooks, began dissipating in the city of Dallas.…
1Opinion of the Court
HEHDERSOH, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of fifty years; hence this appeal.
It appears from the record that deceased, Joe Gwinn, and another white man were together in the city of Dallas on the night of the homicide. They met appellant Murray Cecil and Berry Blankenship, two negroes. The parties drank together a number of times, and all of them seemed to be more or less under the influence of liquor. During the time, Berry Blankenship gave deceased $3 to keep for him, in order to buy his…
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