HURLEY v. STATE

No. 40095.

411 S.W.2d 369 (1967)

Robert Earl HURLEY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 8, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Chambers (on appeal only), Arlington, for appellant.

Doug Crouch, Dist. Atty., Gordon Gray and Rufus Adcock, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is burglary; the punishment, three years.

Appellant's sole ground of error is that it was improper for the state to read his confession to the jury before allowing him to present rebuttal evidence to the jury on the issue of the voluntariness of the confession.

At a pretrial hearing, after hearing evidence with regard to the voluntariness of appellant's confession, the trial court resolved the...

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