WHITE v. STATE

No. 28879.

306 S.W.2d 903 (1957)

Charles WHITE, alias Charlie White, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 30, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. P. Darrouzet, Victor Rogers, Austin, Percy Foreman, Houston (On Appeal Only), for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder, the indictment alleging that appellant killed the deceased "by strangling him with a wire"; the punishment was assessed at death.

Mrs. Lambert Berkman, daughter of the deceased, testified that the appellant and his brother, Calvin White, came to the farm home where she and her husband lived about 1 p. m., July 21, 1955, in a blue-colored pickup; that appellant asked about her father and brother and where...

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