The Texas Criminal Reports: Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Criminal Appeals of the State of Texas, Volume 56State of Texas, 1909 - Criminal law |
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42 Texas 54 Texas Crim adequate cause affirmed aggravated assault alleged appellant appellant's asked assault Assistant Attorney-General authority believe bill of exceptions Brown County burglary circumstances circumstantial evidence complains Constitution counsel County Court county jail court erred court's charge Criminal death deceased defendant defendant's dence district attorney District Court Ellis County error evidence showed F. J. McCord fendant guilty habeas corpus homicide indictment instructed the jury intent intoxicating liquors issue judge JUDGE.-Appellant was convicted judgment June 9 jurors jury killing manslaughter matter motion night objection offense opinion option law overruled party Penal Code penalty penitentiary person pistol prosecution prosecutrix punishment assessed RAMSEY rape reasonable doubt record refusing reversible error S. W. Rep says second degree self-defense shooting shot State's statement of facts statute sufficient testified testimony Texarkana theft tion told trial for murder Tried verdict violation whisky wife witness
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Page 253 - Department, shall convert to his own use, in any way whatever, or shall use by way of investment in any kind of property...
Page 79 - A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice unless it be corroborated by such other evidence as shall tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense ; and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof.
Page 413 - When we consider the nature and the theory of our institutions of government, the principles upon which they are supposed to rest, and review the history of their development, we are constrained to conclude that they do not mean to leave room for the play and action of purely personal and arbitrary power.
Page 413 - But the fundamental rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, considered as individual possessions, are secured by those maxims of constitutional law which are the monuments showing the victorious progress of the race in securing to men the blessings of civilization under the reign of just and equal laws, so that, in the famous language of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights, the government of the Commonwealth 'may be a government of laws and not of men.
Page 263 - ... that his life was In danger, or that he was In danger of serious bodily Injury, and thus justify his act.
Page 413 - FOR, THE VERY IDEA THAT ONE MAN MAY BE COMPELLED TO HOLD HIS LIFE, OR THE MEANS OF LIVING, OR ANY MATERIAL RIGHT ESSENTIAL TO THE ENJOYMENT OF LIFE, AT THE MERE WILL OF ANOTHER, SEEMS TO BE INTOLERABLE IN ANY COUNTRY WHERE FREEDOM PREVAILS, AS BEING THE ESSENCE OF SLAVERY ITSELF.
Page 43 - ... may be given; and when a detached act, declaration, conversation, or writing is given in evidence, any other act, declaration, conversation, or writing, which is necessary to make it understood, may also be given in evidence.
Page 517 - Court is disqualified by any of the causes above stated, the parties may, by consent, appoint a proper person to try said case ; or, upon their failing to do so, a competent person may be appointed to try the same in the county where it is pending, in such manner as may be prescribed by law. And the District Judges may exchange districts, or hold courts for each other, when they may deem it expedient, and shall do so when required by law.
Page 342 - The condition of the recognizance shall be such that if the defendant shall make his or her personal appearance in court whenever ordered to do so, and shall further comply with the terms of such order of support, or of any subsequent modification thereof, then such recognizance shall be void, otherwise of full force and effect.
Page 521 - One part may qualify another so as to restrict its operation, or apply it otherwise than the natural construction would require if it stood by itself; but one part is not to be allowed to defeat another, if by any reasonable construction the two can be made to stand together.