MORRIS v. STATE

No. 36985.

382 S.W.2d 259 (1964)

Robert Chappel MORRIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 14, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hughes & Diamond, by Edward C. Hughes, El Paso, for appellant.

Edwin F. Berliner, Dist. Atty., Sam W. Callan and Charles Andrew Gary, Asst. Dist. Attys., El Paso, and Leon B. Douglas State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for maiming, the punishment, six years.

The assaulted party, Candelario Hernandez, owned and operated a bar, and also owned and lived in one of six apartments adjacent to the bar which were located alongside and opened onto the sidewalk. While standing on the sidewalk about 7:30 p. m., near the bar, Hernandez saw the appellant pulling on the screen doors and peeping into...

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