Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of the State of Texas Volume 11 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Syllabus. judges have an undoubted right to interpose in such matter though no objection be raised by the opposite party." Aiken v. Stewart, 63 Pa. St. 30. And, as seen above, there is less reason for any exception in this instance, as the learned judge allowed the witness subsequently to be examined again, without limit, through an interpreter, upon the very matters complained of. It is not easy to see what injury was done the defendant in this. Having discussed the only questions raised in the record, it only remains for us to say that the trial, which resulted in the declaration that defendant's life should pay the forfeit for his crime, appears to have been eminently fair and impartial. That he is guilty of the heinous offense with which he was charged cannot be doubted if the evidence be believed. And the fiendish atrocity attending its perpetration may well justify the jury in imposing the highest penalty known to the law. The judgment is in all things affirmed. Affirmed. 1133 333 M. L. Mock v. The State. Refusal To Bender Tax-list.?By the literal import of article 113 of the Penal Code it is ipso facto a misdemeanor to refuse or neglect to make out aud render the list of taxable property when called on in person by the assessor or his deputy; but article 4716 of the Revised Civil Statutes authorizes a delinquent to exculpate himself before the board of equalization, and, if ho fails to do so, requires the board to return his name to the assessor on the list of delinquents presentable to the grand jury. Held, that the penal enactments on this subject must be construed in connection with correlative provisions of the Civil Statutes; and therefore, notwithstanding the literal import of said article 113, no criminal prosecution of such a delinquent can he m...