JOHNSON v. STATE

No. 25516.

244 S.W.2d 235 (1951)

JOHNSON v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 19, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred S. Harless, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Cr. Dist. Atty., Charles S. Potts, Asst. Cr. Dist. Atty., Dallas, George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for the murder of Willie Wood Sides, Jr., a rookie police officer of the City of Dallas. The jury assessed the extreme penalty.

Traveling in a 1951 Oldsmobile, stolen by them in Oklahoma, appellant, his two nephews, J. W. Johnson and Marvin Johnson, and one Maxwell Billy Pomeroy, arrived in Dallas. In the car was a .22 rifle, a German Luger pistol, and a .32 automatic pistol, in addition to a third pistol which would...

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