Broxton v. State

Citations

• 9 Tex. Ct. App. 97

Syllabus

<p>Charos or the Court. — In a trial for conveying instruments into a jail with intent to facilitate the escape of a prisoner detained therein on an accusation of felony, the court below instructed the jury that certain indictments and capiases put in evidence by the State were “ sufficient proof to establish the allegation contained in the indictment that]?. A. Latimer, the person described in said indictments and capiases, was confined on an accusation of felony.” Held, not a charge on the weight of evidence, but a proper explanation of the legal effect of the records of the court.</p>