MONTELLO v. STATE

No. 26920.

267 S.W.2d 557 (1954)

MONTELLO v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 5, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde Gordon, Jr., Houston, for appellant.

Ewing Werlein, Dist. Atty., King C. Haynie, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, Wesley Dice, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, 99 years in the penitentiary.

Appellant killed her husband by shooting him in the head with a .22 caliber pistol fired at close range. She signed a confession which was introduced in evidence and there was an eyewitness to the shooting.

The jury rejected appellant's plea of self-defense raised by her testimony as a witness in her own behalf, and the sufficiency of the evidence is not questioned...

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