SMITH v. STATE

No. 36531.

375 S.W.2d 299 (1964)

Roosevelt SMITH, Appellant. v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 12, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wardlaw & Cochran, Fort Worth (on appeal only), for appellant.

Doug Crouch, Dist. Atty., Albert F. Fick, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Fort Worth, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


McDONALD, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, life imprisonment in the state penitentiary.

The State's evidence reflects that the homicide occurred in the Morocco Club, a negro bar located in Fort Worth, Texas. Appellant was playing dominoes with deceased and one other man, identified as "Leonard," when deceased stood up and looked at appellant in an angry manner. The two men looked at each other for a few moments, whereupon appellant stood up, paid...

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