CLARK v. STATE

No. 26141.

261 S.W.2d 339 (1953)

CLARK v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 8, 1953.

Certiorari Denied October 19, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Benavides, James H. Martin and Newton Kennedy, Dallas, and William C. McDonald, San Angelo, (on appeal only), for appellant.

Earl Smith, Dist. Atty., H. C. Upton, Special Prosecutor and B. W. Smith, Special Prosecutor, San Angelo, George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.


Certiorari Denied October 19, 1953. See 74 S.Ct. 69.

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The deceased secured a divorce from appellant on March 25, 1952. That night she was killed, as she lay at home in her bed, as the result of a gunshot wound. From the mattress on her bed, as well as from the bed of her daughter, were recovered bullets which were shown by a firearms expert to have been fired by a .38 special revolver having...

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