Case Name: WALTER MORGAN v. THE STATE
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1884
Citations: 3 Tex. L. R. 313
Docket Number: 
Parties: WALTER MORGAN v. THE STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Law Reporter
Volume: 3
Pages: 313–314

Head Matter:
WALTER MORGAN v. THE STATE.
Appeal from Travis county.
Implied Malice. — The court below charged as follows : “The law implies malice from the unlawful killing of a human being, unless the circumstances make it evident that the killing was either justifiable, or, if not justifiable, was so mitigated as to reduce the offense below murder in the second degree.” Held, error, as it impinges the doctrine of reasonable doubt. Reversed and remanded.

Opinion:
Opinion by
Hurt, J.
N. B. — Upon another question presented iu this case the views of each of the judges are expressed in separate opinions. There being evidence of malpractice by the attending physicians, Judges Will-son and White hold that, under the provisions of Arts. 547-548, Penal Code, if it appears that there has been any gross neglect or manifestly improper treatment of the party injured by the physicians nurse or attendants, it is not homicide in Mm who inflicts the first injury. That the code changes and does not follow the common law upon this subject. Hurt, J., contra.