HACKATHORN v. STATE

No. 36935.

422 S.W.2d 920 (1964)

Carl Junior HACKATHORN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 21, 1964.

Certiorari Denied May 24, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phil Burleson, Dallas, Robert Power, Irving, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., William F. Alexander, Frank Watts, A. D. Jim Bowie, Harryette Bercu, Ross Teeter and C. M. Turlington, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


Certiorari Denied May 24, 1965. See 85 S.Ct. 1570.

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, death.

The testimony of the state shows that the appellant killed Bobbie Smith, a woman, by shooting her three times with a pistol above the left ear, the three bullets passing through and lodging in the right side of the brain, and causing her death instantaneously.

The appellant did not testify, but called his mother and...

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