WRIGHT v. STATE

No. 37690.

388 S.W.2d 703 (1965)

Stanley WRIGHT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 21, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Herbert Oldham, Beaumont, for appellant.

W. C. Lindsey, Dist. Atty., John R. DeWitt, Asst. Dist. Atty., Beaumont, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment, five years.

The indictment alleged that appellant voluntarily and with malice aforethought killed Martin Garlaska by shooting him with a pistol.

The jury rejected appellant's plea of self-defense and accident and his plea for suspended sentence.

The offense of assault with intent to murder was submitted to the jury, coupled with instructions to acquit appellant of murder if...

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