LYONS v. STATE

No. 27305.

275 S.W.2d 816 (1955)

Clintell LYONS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 12, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Allison, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Crim. Dist. Atty., Jerry Shivers, Asst. Crim. Dist. Atty., Charles S. Potts, Asst. Crim. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Wesley Dice, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 30 years.

The homicide occurred on a Dallas Railway streetcar shortly before noon. One shot was fired; it entered the head of the deceased, a 28-year old woman, one-half inch below the left eye and lodged near the surface approximately five inches above and behind her right ear. So far as this record discloses, none of the witnesses knew the appellant save his companion, who testified in his...

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