BRAXTON v. STATE

No. 29286.

307 S.W.2d 96 (1957)

Freddie Lee BRAXTON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 20, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Cahoon, Houston, for appellant.

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


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, ten years.

The three principal actors in this homicide were Dee Manager, the appellant, and the deceased. Dee was the uncle of the deceased. All the witnesses for the State and for the defense (the appellant did not testify) put the parties in the same positions and attribute practically the same words to them prior to the shooting. The only material conflict lies in whether or not the deceased...

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