The Texas Criminal Reports: Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Criminal Appeals of the State of Texas, Volume 90State of Texas, 1922 - Criminal law |
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... admissible . Branch's Ann . P. C. , Sec . 135. Appellant's contention that his action but expressed his fear of a mob , would be a matter addressed to the consideration of the jury and would only affect the weight of evidence regarding ...
... admissible . Branch's Ann . P. C. , Sec . 135. Appellant's contention that his action but expressed his fear of a mob , would be a matter addressed to the consideration of the jury and would only affect the weight of evidence regarding ...
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... admissible . Lasseter v . State , decided at the present term . Appellant excepted to the court's charge for failure to submit the issue of self - defense based on apparent danger . We are inclined to think the exception well taken ...
... admissible . Lasseter v . State , decided at the present term . Appellant excepted to the court's charge for failure to submit the issue of self - defense based on apparent danger . We are inclined to think the exception well taken ...
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... admissibility of such confession is a question of law , and where it was made in conformity with the statute , there was ... admissible as affecting any legitimate issue in the case , there was no reversible error . 13. Same - Evidence ...
... admissibility of such confession is a question of law , and where it was made in conformity with the statute , there was ... admissible as affecting any legitimate issue in the case , there was no reversible error . 13. Same - Evidence ...
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... admissible . In Taylor's case , 49 Texas Crim . Rep . , 10 , we held it proper for the State to show what the accused did in his attempt to escape after a posse surrounded the place where he was 18 [ June , 90 TEXAS CRIMINAL REPORTS .
... admissible . In Taylor's case , 49 Texas Crim . Rep . , 10 , we held it proper for the State to show what the accused did in his attempt to escape after a posse surrounded the place where he was 18 [ June , 90 TEXAS CRIMINAL REPORTS .
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... admissible , but in that case the accused was confined in jail for murder , and during such confinement broke jail and inflicted serious injury upon the jailer in making his escape . This appears to us as vastly different , from the ...
... admissible , but in that case the accused was confined in jail for murder , and during such confinement broke jail and inflicted serious injury upon the jailer in making his escape . This appears to us as vastly different , from the ...
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Page 571 - Code provides that 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...
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Page 99 - ... specified in the following article, committed within the jurisdiction of one of the contracting parties, shall seek an asylum or be found within the territories of the other...
Page 135 - In its motion for rehearing the state urges that the great weight of authority is in favor of the proposition that the burden of proof...
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Page 258 - If the law is wrong, it ought to be changed; but the power for that is not with us. The arguments addressed to us bearing upon such a view of the subject may perhaps be sufficient to induce those having the power, to make the alteration, but they ought not to be permitted to influence our judgment in determining the present rights of the parties now litigating before us. No argument as to woman's need of suffrage can be considered.
Page 258 - We have given this case the careful consideration its importance demands. If the law is wrong, it ought to be changed; but the power for that is not with us. The arguments addressed to us bearing upon such a view of the subject may perhaps be sufficient to induce those having the power to make the alteration, but they ought not to be permitted to influence our judgment in determining the present rights...