ELLIS v. STATE

No. 36991.

379 S.W.2d 342 (1964)

Clifford Ray ELLIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 27, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Martin, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Frank Watts, John Vance and C. M. Turlington, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, forty years.

The evidence of the state reveals that about 4 p. m., while the deceased and Robert Rollins were repairing deceased's truck in a vacant space between a beer tavern and the street, the deceased in looking for a rubber hose found it in appellant's car, and he then hit appellant with the hose. At this time the appellant said: "I'll be back; I'm going after a gun." In an hour or...

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