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PARRISH v. STATE

No. 28203.

290 S.W.2d 245 (1956)

James Clyde PARRISH, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 18, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brewster, Pannell, Leeton & Dean, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Howard M. Fender, Dist. Atty., George C. Thompson, Jr., Randell C. Riley and Conard Florence, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, twenty-five years.

A recitation of the facts is unnecessary, in view of our disposition of the case, other than to state that the homicide grew out of an argument over a crap game after it was discovered that the deceased possessed a pair of crooked dice.

Appellant filed an application for a suspension of sentence, testified in his own behalf...

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