Parker v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The evidence is quite voluminous and circumstantial in character. • There were no eyewitnesses to the homicide. The deceased was a young man who on the morning of the killing was taken over to his new home by his father, who went on further to the town of Pittsburg in a wagon. His son got pif near an old vacant house on his place to build a fence.
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The evidence is quite voluminous and circumstantial in character. • There were no eyewitnesses to the homicide. The deceased was a young man who on the morning of the killing was taken over to his new home by his father, who went on further to the town of Pittsburg in a wagon. His son got pif near an old vacant house on his place to build a fence. Shortly after, while the father on his return sought shelter from the rain under the eaves of a church near the road, and about three-fourths of a mile from his son’s place, he heard two shots in that direction, and immediately drove over to his…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of eighteen years; hence this appeal. This case is one depending on circumstantial evidence. The theory of the State being that appellant was opposed to the marriage of his daughter to diseased, which occurred about twenty days before the homicide. The State’s ease depended on the identity of appellant as the person who committed the homicide. This involved a number of circumstances, which, it is insisted, point to appellant—such as former conduct…
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