Perryman v. State

Citations

• 36 Tex. 321

Syllabus

<p>1. It is nota necessary allegation in an indictment for murder that the party slain was a reasonable creature in being.</p> <p>2. On appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree, it is urged as a ground for reversing the judgment of the court below, that the court erred in not charging the jury as to murder in the first and second degrees. Held, that as the appellant was only convicted of murder in the second degree, there exists no cause for reversing the judgment on this account.</p> <p>3. On the trial of an indictment for murder, it is competent to infer the motives of the accused from his actions.</p>