WESTBROOK v. STATE

No. 30966.

333 S.W.2d 126 (1960)

Siess WESTBROOK, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 20, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank C. Mabry, Frederick W. Robinson, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., and Jon N. Hughes, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the substantive crime of conspiracy to commit the offense of murder; the punishment, seven years.

The indictment charged appellant with conspiring with Maudell Berger to kill Walter Berger, whom the record shows was her husband. This case presents an extremely bizarre fact situation. The State adduced the following evidence from their principal witness, Walter Sands. That he was doing undercover work on narcotics cases...

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