WATSON v. STATE

No. 34018.

352 S.W.2d 120 (1961)

McCoy WATSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 13, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No attorney for appellant of record on appeal.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for felony theft; the punishment, 3 years.

The disposition hereof makes a summary of the facts unnecessary.

The state confesses reversible error in the argument of the prosecuting attorney before the jury wherein he said:

"And you know that the fact of human error is more prevalent in a live witness that it is * * * from other evidence that might be admitted into a lawsuit, and from facts and...

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