BELL v. STATE

No. 38664.

398 S.W.2d 133 (1965)

Timer BELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied February 2, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Emerson, Houston, Marvin O. Teague (on appeal only), Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally and Neil McKay, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is murder; the punishment, ten years.

The evidence was undisputed that appellant killed the deceased, Dillon Roberson, by shooting him with a gun.

Appellant was the manager of a group of apartments in the city of Houston. The deceased, Dillon Roberson, his brother Quille Roberson, and Quille's wife lived in one of the apartments. It was shown by the state's testimony that, on the day of the homicide, Quille, the brother...

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