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BYRD v. STATE

No. 41087.

427 S.W.2d 894 (1968)

Eddie Ray BYRD, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied May 8, 1968.

Second Rehearing Denied June 5, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. E. McDaniel, Winnie (By Appointment), LeRoy McCall, Hamshire (By Appointment), for appellant.

W. G. Woods, Jr., Dist. Atty., Liberty, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, death.

The case against appellant was one of circumstantial evidence.

It was shown by the state's testimony that on November 15, 1966, the deceased, a route salesman for a potato chip company, was found to be missing after he had taken orders and gone out the back door of a Minimax store in Winnie, Chambers County.

The following day the deceased's body was found lying...

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