FRENCH v. STATE

No. 40329.

415 S.W.2d 203 (1967)

James Leon FRENCH, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 10, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edgar L. Berlin, Beaumont, for appellant.

W. C. Lindsey, Dist. Atty., John R. DeWitt, Asst. Dist. Atty., Beaumont, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is Murder with Malice; the punishment, life imprisonment in the Texas Department of Corrections.

The record reveals that on October 8, 1965, Beaumont City police officers, answering a radio call, arrived at the residence of R. D. Russell. They found Russell lying on a bed in a bloody condition, appearing to have been badly beaten. Russell was taken to a hospital where he died two days later.

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