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WRIGHT v. STATE

No. 39803.

422 S.W.2d 184 (1967)

Reginald Edison WRIGHT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 25, 1967.

Second Rehearing Denied November 29, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Beech (Court Appointed on Appeal Only), Fort Worth, Alfred J. Jackson, Jr. (Court Appointed), Fort Worth, for appellant.

Frank Coffey, Dist. Atty., Glenn Goodnight, Grady Hight and Walter Shore, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of murder upon an indictment alleging that he did "voluntarily and with malice aforethought kill Ralph Lucas Bennett by stomping him with his feet," and his punishment was assessed at death.

The sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction is challenged. It is insisted that the evidence is insufficient to establish the corpus delicti, and that there is no evidence that the death of the...

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