WILEY v. STATE

No. 33521.

350 S.W.2d 22 (1961)

Roosevelt WILEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 7, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack C. Altaras, Gean B. Turner, Cleburne, for appellant.

Justin A. Kever, Dist. Atty., San Angelo, Glyndon M. Hague, Dist. Atty., Cleburne, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

A prior death penalty conviction against this appellant was reversed because of certain jury misconduct and procedural errors. Wiley v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 332 S.W.2d 725.

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