THOMAS v. STATE

No. 36518.

375 S.W.2d 290 (1964)

David THOMAS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 12, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward D. Michalek, Jr., Houston (On Appeal Only), for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally and Thomas C. Dunn, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, life.

The deceased, Dorothy Mae Freeman, referred to in the record as the common-law wife of the appellant, was found dead in the home she and the appellant had moved into that day when Detective C. E. Reynolds arrived. Her body was lying in the doorway of the bathroom.

Dr. Jachimczyk, who performed an autopsy on the body, testified that he found two gunshot wounds, one entering the chest...

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