GILLIES v. STATE

No. 33477.

346 S.W.2d 612 (1961)

James Lawrence GILLIES, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 24, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Percy Foreman (On Appeal Only), Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., Lee P. Ward, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder with malice; the punishment, 99 years.

The indictment charged that the appellant voluntarily and with malice aforethought killed Freddie Inglis by shooting him with a gun.

The testimony of the state shows that about 2 a. m. the appellant drove his pickup truck to the home of the deceased with the intent to kill him and by use of a shotgun ordered the deceased into the pickup and drove away. In a brief...

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