COOK v. STATE

No. 37686.

388 S.W.2d 707 (1965)

Allen L. COOK, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 21, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. T. Gauen, Jr., Dallas, Payne Roye, Graham, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is murder; the punishment, twenty years.

The state's evidence shows that on the day in question the appellant was at a cedar cutters' camp located on Conner Creek in the southeast part of Young County. Around 1 p. m., the deceased, twenty-two years of age, and three other young men drove to the creek in an automobile and stopped on the opposite side from the camp. The deceased and...

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