OVERTON v. STATE

No. 40607.

419 S.W.2d 371 (1967)

Charles Ray OVERTON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

October 18, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones, Blakeslee, Minton, Burton & Fitzgerald, by Roy Q. Minton, Austin, for appellant.

Thomas D. Blackwell, Dist. Atty., Robert A. Huttash, Asst. Dist. Atty., and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The offense is burglary with the punishment enhanced by two prior felony convictions; the punishment, life.

In this case the trial court refused to allow the appellant to call his co-defendant, Jesse Gonzales, as a witness in his own behalf over the state's objection that he was a co-principal who had been indicted of the same offense for which the appellant was on trial, and that his testimony was not admissible in evidence...

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