MARTIN v. STATE

No. 39055.

401 S.W.2d 831 (1966)

Kenneth Bruce MARTIN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied May 4, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Maloney, Dallas, Sam N. Vilches, Jr. (On Appeal), Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Frank Watts, William F. Alexander, John Vance and W. John Allison, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The indictment alleged that appellant, with malice aforethought, voluntarily killed Janice Lee Strickland by shooting her with a gun.

The case was submitted to the jury as one of circumstantial evidence. The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction is not challenged.

The state's evidence shows that the deceased and her husband, Linford I. Strickland, left their home...

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