POWERS v. STATE

No. 38043.

396 S.W.2d 389 (1965)

Ralph Carl POWERS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied December 15, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Farmer, Maddin, Eichelberger & Walker, Waco, for appellant.

James E. Barlow, Dist. Atty., San Antonio, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The state's testimony shows that the deceased, Morris Weldon (Dicky) Renfro, nineteen years of age, was killed by a bullet fired from a .32 calibre pistol in the hands of appellant. The killing occurred in the parking area of Castle Hills Manor, an apartment complex on Blanco Road in the city of San Antonio, where the Renfro family lived.

It appears that on the night in question, the...

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