POLICE SCIENCE LEGAL ABSTRACTS AND NOTES.

This article discusses the Pipher v. State court case. The defendant was found guilty of an assault to murder. It appears the injured woman and her party had visited several taverns before coming to the defendant's liquor dispensary and there, after a short time, engaged in a heated argument with the defendant, who brandished a revolver and ordered the party off the premises. The defendant alleges that when she displayed the weapon, one of the women held her arm while the victim came behind the bar to grapple for the gun and was accidently shot. The examining physician, after describing the wounds, testified that there was no evidence of powder burns. The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas affirmed the decision of the trial court and ruled the defendant's objection was not well founded because she did not present any evidence to corroborate her claim of accidental shooting or show that the gun was within twenty inches of the wound, which it inflicted at the time of firing.