Williford v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The indictment charged appellant with the murder of one John Baker, in Dallas County, on the 21st of December, 1894. The following concise statement of the case is taken from the brief of counsel for appellant, and is substantially correct: The defendant, William Williford, was about thirty years of age, and while he did not pursue farming as a vocation, he lived most of the time on his mother’s farm, near Garland, in Dallas County.
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The indictment charged appellant with the murder of one John Baker, in Dallas County, on the 21st of December, 1894. The following concise statement of the case is taken from the brief of counsel for appellant, and is substantially correct: The defendant, William Williford, was about thirty years of age, and while he did not pursue farming as a vocation, he lived most of the time on his mother’s farm, near Garland, in Dallas County. His mother was a widow, and was raising three or four grandchildren; among them was a girl, Annie Hughes, fourteen years of age. John Baker lived in the vicinity.…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at twenty-five years in the penitentiary, and he prosecutes this appeal. In order to present the bill of exceptions, we will first summarize the evidence: The killing occurred at the house of Mrs. Williford, the mother of appellant, who lived in Dallas County, a short distance from the town of Rowlett, sometime in December, 1894. The deceased had hired to Mrs. Williford to farm on her place during the year 1895, and had moved to her house, and was living there at the time of the homicide.…
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