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CRAIG v. STATE

No. 33250.

347 S.W.2d 255 (1961)

Dee CRAIG, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 10, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luther E. Jones, Jr., Corpus Christi, Percy Foreman, Houston, of counsel, for appellant.

J. P. Hart, special prosecutor, La Grange, J. R. Owen, Co. Atty., Georgetown, James B. Kershaw, Dist. Atty., Bastrop, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

McDONALD, Judge.

Murder with malice is the offense, with punishment assessed at thirty years' confinement in the penitentiary.

At the January term, 1958, appellant was indicted by the Bastrop County grand jury for the offense of murder with malice aforethought upon the person of his wife, Grace Craig, on August 25, 1957. He was first tried in Bastrop County in May, 1958, but the trial resulted in a hung jury.

Upon a change of venue, the trial was transferred...

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