FIELDS v. STATE

No. 41182.

426 S.W.2d 863 (1968)

Leroy FIELDS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 24, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brown, Shuman & Harding, by Clifford W. Brown, Lubbock, for appellant.

Alton R. Griffin, Dist. Atty., Thomas J. Purdom, Asst. Dist. Atty., Lubbock, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The state, in presenting its case against appellant, called six witnesses.

Sgt. Gene Carpenter, of the Slaton police department, testified that on the morning of October 31, 1966, in response to a call, he and a fellow officer went to an area in the city called "the flats," around 7:55 a.m., where they found the deceased's dead body lying near a car parked...

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