SLATER v. STATE

No. 29756.

317 S.W.2d 203 (1958)

Phillip SLATER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 29, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darden & Fowler, Gerald J. Creighton, Jr., George B. Darden, Conroe, for appellant.

J. W. Simpson, Jr., Dist. Atty., Conroe, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

Upon arraignment the appellant plead not guilty. At the conclusion of the State's case appellant changed his plea to guilty. Appellant did not testify or offer any evidence in his behalf save one sentence from his confession which had not been offered by the State. The State's case will be summarized.

The deceased, an elderly woman, lived alone in the city of Conroe. Sometime...

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