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GATSON v. STATE

No. 37714.

387 S.W.2d 65 (1965)

Leo GATSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 24, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip Bordages, S. L. Greenberg, Beaumont, for appellant.

W. C. Lindsey, Dist. Atty., Jim Vollers, Asst. Dist. Atty., Beaumont, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

BELCHER, Commissioner.

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

Appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction.

The evidence reveals that the appellant and the deceased had been living together since 1961. After an absence of about ten days the deceased, in good health, returned to appellant's house on Wednesday, August 21, 1963. The appellant and the deceased were seen at home Thursday. The deceased...

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