SMITH v. STATE

No. 32533.

350 S.W.2d 344 (1961)

Joe Edward SMITH, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Certiorari Denied October 16, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe Ed Winfree, Sr., and Joe Ed Winfree, Jr., Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., Lee P. Ward, Jr., Gus J. Zgourides, Assts. Dist. Atty., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


Certiorari Denied October 16, 1961. See 82 S.Ct. 126.

DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The appellant and Adrian Johnson were jointly charged by indictment with the murder of William Merrill Bodenheimer.

Upon the granting of a severance, Johnson was separately tried and convicted with his punishment assessed at death. Upon appeal to this Court, the judgment of conviction was affirmed in an opinion which is found...

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