Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Texas, Volume 19Hutchings Print. House, 1886 - Criminal law |
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18 Texas Ct accused affidavit Affirmed aggravated assault alleged animal appellant applicant arrest Arthur Loyd asked Assistant Attorney-General attorney bill of exceptions body brand cattle charge colt Contat conviction Cross-examined custody deceased's defendant defendant's house district court Ellis county error evidence fact felony fence fendant going Gonzales county grand jury habeas corpus held hogs homicide horse Hunt county indictment J. H. Burts John judgment juror Kinney county lived miles morning motion murder ness night Niland o'clock offense Opinion delivered opinion in extenso option law parties Penal Code peremptory challenges person pistol present prosecution question refused remanded replied reversed Ricks road rule saloon saw the defendant sheriff shooting shot was fired Statement statute term testimony Texas Ct theft tion Titus county told witness Tom Kennedy track trial court wife Wise county witness heard Witness knew witness saw witness's house yearling
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Page 118 - The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law; but it can make a law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend. To deny this would be to stop the wheels of government. There are many things upon which wise and useful legislation must depend which cannot be known to the law-making power, and, must, therefore, be a subject of inquiry and determination outside of the halls of legislation.
Page 488 - To guard against transgression of the high powers which we have delegated, WE DECLARE that everything in this Bill of Rights is excepted out of the general powers of government, and shall forever remain inviolate ; and all laws contrary thereto, or contrary to this Constitution, shall be void.
Page 295 - No person's property shall be taken, damaged, or destroyed for or applied to public use without adequate compensation being made, unless by the consent of such person...
Page 118 - One of the settled maxims in constitutional law is, that the power conferred upon the legislature to make laws cannot be delegated by that department to any other body or authority. Where the sovereign power of the State has located the authority, there it must remain ; and by the constitutional agency alone the laws must be made until the constitution itself is changed.
Page 513 - The true test by which the question, whether such a plea is a sufficient bar in any particular case, may be tried, is, whether the evidence necessary to support the second indictment would have been sufficient to procure a legal conviction upon the first.
Page 118 - But it is not always essential that a legislative act should be a completed statute which must In any event take effect as law at the time It leaves the hands of the legislative department, A statute may be conditional, and Its taking effect may be made to depend upon some subsequent event.
Page 116 - No person, or collection of persons, being of one of those departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except in the instances hereinafter expressly directed or permitted.
Page 236 - A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice unless it be corroborated by such other evidence as shall tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense; and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof.
Page 513 - That no person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense without due process of law; and no person for the same offense shall be twice put in jeopardy of punishment, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.
Page 650 - No citizen of this state shall be deprived of life, liberty, property, privileges or immunities, or in any manner disfranchised, except by the due course of the law of the land.