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HALL v. STATE

No. 28688.

301 S.W.2d 161 (1957)

Wilburn Monroe HALL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied March 27, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell F. Wolters, Houston, for appellant.

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

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, death.

The evidence shows that the deceased, Samuel Ross MacGregor and his wife, Joy Lee MacGregor, were separated on December 17, 1954. Shortly after their separation the deceased spent seven months in a mental institution in Austin, then after his release on September 26, 1955, returned to Houston where he lived in the home of his mother and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clayton. Mrs...

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