DOWLING v. STATE

No. 28925.

301 S.W.2d 920 (1957)

William Alfred DOWLING, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 3, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl E. F. Dally, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty, Thomas D. White and Benjamin Woodall, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

In view of our disposition of this case, a recitation of the facts will not be deemed necessary other than to observe that the sole defense was that of insanity.

The appellant offered into evidence his Navy service record authenticated as being accurate by the Chief of Naval Personnel and the Acting Judge Advocate General for the Secretary of the Navy, which contained, among other...

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