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COLLINS v. STATE

No. 33514.

352 S.W.2d 841 (1961)

Clarence COLLINS, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas. Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 10, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Walsh, of Foreman & Walsh, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., and Charles C. Castles, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 99 years.

This is a companion case to Morgan v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 346 S.W.2d 116, wherein appellant's coindictee, Maggie Morgan, was convicted for the murder of Mrs. Wilma B. Selby, deceased, and assessed punishment at death.

The evidence adduced by the state in the two cases, with exception of appellant's written confession, is substantially the same,...

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