PRUITT v. STATE

No. 34207.

355 S.W.2d 528 (1962)

Ruth Ester PRUITT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied March 21, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Cutler, Houston, for appellant.

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


MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, life.

In view of our disposition of this appeal, a statement of facts will not be deemed necessary.

The indictment alleged that the offense occurred in September, 1951, but this trial (so far as this record reveals, the first trial of this case) did not take place until June of 1961.

During the cross-examination of the first witness for the State, appellant developed that the witness had...

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