CRAIG v. STATE

No. 31090.

331 S.W.2d 925 (1959)

Dee CRAIG, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied February 10, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Percy Foreman, Holvey Williams, Houston, for appellant.

J. P. Hart, La Grange, Wallace Barber, Dist. Atty., San Marcos, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, fifty years.

In view of our disposition of this case a recitation of the facts will not be necessary. There were no witnesses, save the appellant, to the shooting and his defense was that his wife's death was the result of an accident.

The State's principal witness, Ranger Dudley White, testified while the prosecution was making out its case in chief that in the course of his investigation...

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