Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 51
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, November 16, 1907
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SMITH CASE IS REVERSED.
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Joe Dawson Case Affirmed--Wills
Cervantes Reversed.
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       The court of criminal appeals in session at Tyler reversed and remanded the case of the State of Texas vs. John Smith on appeal from this county.      

      Smith was convicted on a charge of arson and given five years in the reformatory.  His attorney, E. W. Bounds, appealed the case to the higher court with the result as noted.  The case was very stubbornly contested at the first trial and will no doubt continue to hold the interest until finally dsposed (sic) of.

       The court also reversed the assault to murder case of Wills Cervantes and affirmed the Joe Dawson case, both of which were on appeal from this county.

       Dawson was also sent up on the charge of assault to murder.

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