VAN SKIKE v. STATE

No. 37678.

388 S.W.2d 716 (1965)

Betty Yates VAN SKIKE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 7, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Schlomann, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally, W. Louis White and Daniel P. Ryan, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 10 years.

Alice Killingsworth, who had resided immediately next door to appellant for a short time, but did not know her, testified that she was awakened about midnight on the night in question by noises coming from appellant's home, that she heard male and female voices and that she then heard a shot fired. She stated that shortly thereafter she heard an automobile drive up and a man's voice say "at...

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