WALTON v. STATE

No. 37673.

386 S.W.2d 805 (1965)

Leport WALTON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 17, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Saunders & Tunnell, Tyler, for appellant.

W. E. Coats, Jr., Dist. Atty., R. S. Burruss, Asst. Dist. Atty., Tyler, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

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

The disposition hereof makes a summary of all the facts unnecessary.

In justification of said killing the appellant introduced and relied upon evidence that he acted in self-defense. Frank Lawson, testifying as a witness for the appellant, on direct examination stated that he was present at the scene of the homicide before and at the time it occurred; that an argument...

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