MYLES v. STATE

No. 32366.

341 S.W.2d 913 (1960)

Nannie Maude MYLES, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 7, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coleman & Whitten, by Earl L. Coleman, Denton, for appellant.

Robert H. Caldwell, Jr., County Atty., Denton, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DAVIDSON, Judge.

The offense is murder, with punishment assessed at eighteen years in the penitentiary.

In view of the disposition of the case, a statement of the facts is not deemed called for further than to say that the state's testimony showed an unprovoked killing.

It is shown by formal bill of exception No. 2 that while deliberating upon their verdict the jury sent a note to the court by the bailiff which read:

"In the event the defendant...

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