Rye v. State

Citations

• 8 Tex. Ct. App. 163

Syllabus

<p>1. Murder — Charge oe the Court. — See in the opinion an instruction on murder in the first degree which is held to he correct in the abstract, and not subject to the objection that it assumed the guilt of the accused.</p> <p>2. Same. — No particular form of expression is requisite in a charge; it suffices that the law applicable to the case be substantially given in plain language. See an instruction on circumstantial evidence held sufficient in a trial for murder.</p> <p>3. Indictment—Name oe Deceased. — The requirement that an indictment • must allege the name of the injured party is to apprise the accused of the accusation against him; and this is sufficiently done in an indictment for murder when the evidence shows that the deceased was known to the accused by the name alleged.</p> <p>4. Evidence. — See proof of the name of the deceased held sufficient to sustain the conviction.</p>