LAW v. STATE

No. 29490.

309 S.W.2d 443 (1958)

Willie Floyd LAW, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 5, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Royce E. Ball, Lubbock, for appellant.

George E. Gilkerson, Dist. Atty., Gene S. Cobb and Donald L. Bookout, Asst. Dist. Attys., Lubbock, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is murder; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The trial was had in Lubbock County on a change of venue from Crosby County.

The deceased, Elbert T. Wallace, resided in the town of Crosbyton where he was employed as the night attendant of the Odell Justice grocery and filling station.

On the evening of August 1, 1956, the deceased reported to work at the station around 7:00 P.M. Later in the night, around 1:00...

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