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ASHLEY v. STATE

No. 34351.

362 S.W.2d 847 (1962)

Leslie Douglas ASHLEY and Carolyn Lima, Appellants, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 31, 1962.

Second Rehearing Denied January 2, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack W. Knight, Houston, Lloyd M. Lunsford, South Houston, of counsel, on appeal, Clyde W. Woody, Houston, on rehearing only, for appellants.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., and Neil McKay, Assts. Dist. Atty., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

BELCHER, Commissioner.

Leslie Douglas Ashley and Carolyn Lima were jointly tried and convicted for the offense of murder with malice; the punishment assessed by the jury for each appellant, death.

The state's testimony shows that when officers of the City of Houston arrived at a vacant lot to extinguish a fire on the night of February 6, 1961, they discovered a burning, almost nude male body, later identified as that of the deceased. An autopsy revealed that...

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