WARD v. STATE

No. 40856.

427 S.W.2d 876 (1968)

Jerry Michael WARD, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 10, 1968.

Second Rehearing Denied May 22, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas D. White, Charles A. Easterling, Houston, for appellant.

Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., Richard M. DeGuerin and Erwin G. Ernst, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

OPINION

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

In addition to the grounds of error set forth in appellant's brief his counsel, in oral argument, advanced the contention that the indictment was fatally defective and did not allege the name of the person alleged to have been murdered.

Under authority of Art. 40.09, Sec. 15, Vernon's Ann.C.C.P., we directed the district clerk to send to this court for its inspection...

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