PATTERSON v. STATE

No. 40464.

416 S.W.2d 816 (1967)

Floyd Lee PATTERSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 21, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Metcalfe, Howard B. Law, D. B. Mason, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Frank Watts, Tom Reese and Malcolm Dade, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is Murder with Malice; the punishment, assessed by the jury at ninety-nine (99) years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

Appellant was tried jointly with Willie Sewell in Criminal District Court No. 4 of Dallas County commencing on the 19th day of May, 1966. The Court charged the jury on the law of principals.

In his first ground of error, appellant contends that the trial court erred in...

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