PHILPOT v. STATE

No. 31025.

332 S.W.2d 323 (1960)

Willie Edward PHILPOT, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied February 24, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. L. Whitehead, Longview, for appellant.

Ralph Prince, Dist. Atty., Longview, Charles C. Castles, Asst. Dist. Atty., of Harris County, Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, death.

The indictment was returned by the grand jury on March 2, 1959, and charged that on or about the 30th day of January, 1959, the appellant did unlawfully, voluntarily and with malice aforethought kill Joyce Goff "by choking and strangling her with a piece of wire and by choking and strangling her with his hands."

Appellant filed a motion to quash the indictment on the ground that...

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