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WILKERSON v. STATE

No. 32661.

342 S.W.2d 431 (1961)

Horace WILKERSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

February 1, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard B. Law, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Criminal Dist. Atty., William F. Alexander, Ben F. Ellis, Phil Burleson, Ed Miller, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 99 years.

The indictment alleged that appellant did with malice aforethought kill Kathryn Fay Wilkerson by beating and striking her with a bottle.

The evidence shows that Kathryn Fay Wilkerson, the deceased, was the wife of appellant.

The nude body of the deceased was found lying on a bed in the room she occupied with appellant. There...

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