Coleman v. State
| Court | Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
| Writing for the Court | Davidson |
| Citation | Coleman v. State, 33 S.W. 1083, 35 Tex.Cr. 404 (Tex. Crim. App. 1896) |
| Decision Date | 05 February 1896 |
| Parties | COLEMAN v. STATE. |
Appeal from district court, Navarro county; Rufus Hardy, Judge.
Albert Coleman was convicted of murder in the first degree, and appeals. Reversed.
Mann Trice, for the State.
The appellant was tried under an indictment charging him with murder. The jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree, and assessed his punishment at death; and from the judgment of the lower court he prosecutes this appeal.
The appellant made a motion to dismiss this case, on the ground that he had previously, at the same term of the court, been tried on an indictment charging him with murder of another person than the one contained in the indictment in this case, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for life. He introduced before the court evidence of this conviction, and claimed that he had been punished by a life sentence in another case, and that the court had no jurisdiction to try him for the murder of another person. This matter was also presented in a motion in arrest of judgment. The court overruled said motion, and in this there was no error.
The record in this case shows that the appellant, on the trial, entered a plea of guilty; but the record in the case nowhere shows that, in connection with such plea, the defendant was admonished by the court of the consequences thereof nor is it anywhere shown that, in making said plea, it plainly appeared to the court that the appellant was sane, and was uninfluenced by any consideration of fear, or by any persuasion or delusive hope of pardon, prompting him to confess his guilt. It is true that the charge of the court states "that the defendant has pleaded guilty, after being by the court fully warned...
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