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Fuente: Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab (static.case.law); Texas Court of Criminal Appeals; 79 Tex. Crim. 68. Datos: https://static.case.law/tex-crim/79/cases/0068-01.json. Opinión judicial de EE.UU. sin restricciones conocidas de uso: CAP levantó las restricciones el 2024-03-01 (prensa); el espejo HF free-law declara cc0-1.0; NO c… Abrir la fuente
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Atkison v. State, 79 Tex. Crim. 68 (Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 1916) PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge. Appellant was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment assessed at five years in the penitentiary. The State’s evidence was amply sufficient to show that just about or before night appellant with some companions was in a drug store in the town of Stacy preparing to take a drink of “coke.” Deceased, Eli Brown, who was on a visit to his sister, who ran a hotel and restaurant, went from the restaurant into the back of the drug store to get a bucket of water. In doing so he passed appellant, who hailed him, and he responded. Upon getting the bucket of water, deceased was returning to the restaurant therewith, and, when passing, or just after passing, appellant about the door, appellant used most vile, indecent and insulting language towards Brown. Brown resented it then, but friends interfered, and no encounter was then had. Brown, smarting under the insult, immediately went across the street to his sister’s, got a double-barrel shotgun, went across to the Stacy store, where he procured shells, and loaded the gun. The Stacy store was a block or less distant from the drug store. Brown’s sister, brother-in-law and other friends, hearing of the difficulty and anticipating that he might kill appellant with the shotgun, induced him to give it up or took it away from him. His brother-in-law unbreeched the gun, took out the cartridges and placed the gun under the counter in the…
Fuente: Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab (static.case.law); Texas Court of Criminal Appeals; 79 Tex. Crim. 68. Datos: https://static.case.law/tex-crim/79/cases/0068-01.json. Opinión judicial de EE.UU. sin restricciones conocidas de uso: CAP levantó las restricciones el 2024-03-01 (prensa); el espejo HF free-law declara cc0-1.0; NO c… Abrir la fuente
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Atkison v. State, 79 Tex. Crim. 68 (Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 1916) PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge. Appellant was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment assessed at five years in the penitentiary. The State’s evidence was amply sufficient to show that just about or before night appellant with some companions was in a drug store in the town of Stacy preparing to take a drink of “coke.” Deceased, Eli Brown, who was on a visit to his sister, who ran a hotel and restaurant, went from the restaurant into the back of the drug store to get a bucket of water. In doing so he passed appellant, who hailed him, and he responded. Upon getting the bucket of water, deceased was returning to the restaurant therewith, and, when passing, or just after passing, appellant about the door, appellant used most vile, indecent and insulting language towards Brown. Brown resented it then, but friends interfered, and no encounter was then had. Brown, smarting under the insult, immediately went across the street to his sister’s, got a double-barrel shotgun, went across to the Stacy store, where he procured shells, and loaded the gun. The Stacy store was a block or less distant from the drug store. Brown’s sister, brother-in-law and other friends, hearing of the difficulty and anticipating that he might kill appellant with the shotgun, induced him to give it up or took it away from him. His brother-in-law unbreeched the gun, took out the cartridges and placed the gun under the counter in the…