LOPEZ v. STATE

No. 27491.

280 S.W.2d 270 (1955)

Armando LOPEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

On Motion for Rehearing June 1, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pope & Pope, Laredo, for appellant.

E. James Kazen, Dist. Atty., Laredo, Leon Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 20 years.

The statement of facts consists of 226 pages, and we have been favored with briefs by the State and by the appellant totalling 171 pages. We think the issue presented can be properly stated as follows:

The appellant's confession, the voluntary nature of which is not questioned, omitting the formal parts, reads as follows:

"My name is Armando Lopez. I live in Zapata...

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