HOWARD v. STATE

No. 34641.

357 S.W.2d 403 (1962)

Bertha Lee HOWARD, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 23, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Cutler, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally and Lee P. Ward, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The evidence is undisputed that appellant killed the deceased by shooting him with a pistol, the homicide occurring at the appellant's home in the city of Houston.

When the officers arrived upon the scene after the shooting, the deceased's dead body was found in a sitting position on the living room floor, with a .22 calibre pistol in his right hand. Appellant, who...

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