ALCORTA v. STATE

No. 28080.

308 S.W.2d 519 (1957)

Alvaro ALCORTA v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 18, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred A. Semaan, Raul Villarreal, E. P. Lipscomb, San Antonio, for appellant.

Hubert W. Green, Jr., Dist. Atty., Roy R. Barrera, Asst. Dist. Atty., San Antonio, Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

At a prior term of this Court we affirmed the above conviction (Alcorta v. State, 294 S.W.2d 112).

Following this, the appellant made application to this Court for writ of habeas corpus which was by this Court denied.

The Supreme Court of the United States granted writ of certiorari and issued a mandate in their Cause No. 139, dated December 10, 1957, 78 S.Ct. 103, reversing the judgment...

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