DocketNumber: No. 2992
Citation Numbers: 26 Tex. Ct. App. 399
Judges: Willson
Filed Date: 11/15/1888
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 9/3/2021
We perceive no error in the action of the «court refusing to change the venue of this cause. There is nothing in the record which raises even a suspicion that the defendant was deprived of a fair trial by an impartial jury. Whatever prejudice there may have been against the defendant was shown to have been confined to persons who resided in a particular portion of the county, and none of the jurors who tried the cause resided in that portion of the county. In all respects, the trial judge conducted the trial with scrupulous
That the conviction is warranted by the evidence there is no doubt. The proof of the defendan „guilt is conclusive, and the deliberate, brutal manner in which the crime was perpetrated justified the jury in assessing the death penalty.
The judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed,