MORRIS v. STATE

No. 41516.

432 S.W.2d 920 (1968)

Garfield MORRIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

October 23, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley I. Weinberg, Dallas, by appointment on appeal only, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., John H. Stauffer, Al Walvoord, Camille Elliott, Malcolm Dade and Kerry P. FitzGerald, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is Robbery by assault; the punishment, life.

Appellant's first ground of error is that the court erred in not stopping the trial on his own initiative and granting the accused a hearing on the question of his sanity when, after the jury returned their finding of guilt, the appellant refused to elect whether the judge or the jury should assess his punishment. There evidently had been some question raised prior...

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