Texas Supreme Court December 15, 1849 (Cunningham v. State)

Lipscomb, J.

The only material question on which this case depends is as to the evidence, on which the jury returned a verdict in relation to the age of Williams, tinder whom the plaintiff claimed, at the date of the Declaration of Independence. If he was seventeen years of age and upwards, his title to the headright certificate does not seem to he controverted.