Thompson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appellant and one J. M. Crain were indicted in the District Court of Fort Bend County, for the robbery of C. M. Adams, in said county, on the 23rd day of January, 1895. The indictment is as follows: ‘ ‘In the name and by the authority of the State of Texas.
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Appellant and one J. M. Crain were indicted in the District Court of Fort Bend County, for the robbery of C. M. Adams, in said county, on the 23rd day of January, 1895. The indictment is as follows: ‘ ‘In the name and by the authority of the State of Texas. The grand jurors for the County of Fort Bend, State aforesaid, duly organized as such at the March term, A. D. 1895, of the District Court for said county, upon their oaths in said court present, that J. M. Thompson and J. M. Crain, on or about the 23rd day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five (1895) and anterior to the…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
The appellant in this case was convicted of" robbery, and his punishment assessed at sixteen years in the penitentiary, and he prosecutes this appeal. Appellant claimed a severance in this case, and asked that Crain, his codefendant, be placed first upon trial. It was shown that Crain was too sick at the time to be tried, and appellant then asked to continue the case. This was refused. It is evident that the effect of the severance would have been to eontinue the-case as to both defendants. This, we understand, is not authorized by the statutes granting defendants a right to…
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