WELCH v. STATE

No. 35898.

373 S.W.2d 497 (1963)

Eugene WELCH, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 8, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Doss, Denison, Charles E. Hughes, Joe Wolfe (On Appeal Only), Sherman, for appellant.

R. C. Slagle, Jr., Sp. Pros., Sherman, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The undisputed evidence, including the confession of the appellant and the testimony of the three eye witnesses, shows that the appellant, a Negro, came to the home of J. R. Ballou some 10½ miles from Sherman and 3½ miles from Dorchester, in Grayson County, shortly after 10 o'clock on the night of June 10, 1962; that he was armed with a pistol and after trying the hands and feet...

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