Turnley v. Texas Banking & Insurance
Citations
- 54 Tex. 451
- 1881 Tex. LEXIS 46
Syllabus
<p>1. Action — Parties,— The husband may maintain in his own name an action to recover the separate property of the wife, or for the -wrongful conversion thereof.</p> <p>2. Witness — Husband and wife.— The doctrine that the husband or wife could not be a witness for or against each other, prior to the adoption of the Revised Statutes, had no application to a case in which the husband was offered as a witness in a suit brought by himself to recover the separate property of the wife, or for the conversion thereof; in such case he might testify,</p> <p>8. Distinguished.— This case distinguished from Gee v. Scott, 48 Tex., 510.</p>
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- defense counsel argued to jury that defendant must serve at least one-third of sentence
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