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BUCKELEW v. STATE

No. 41386.

431 S.W.2d 13 (1968)

Delbert Barney BUCKELEW, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 26, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Metcalfe, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Douglas Mulder, John Vance, Kerry FitzGerald and Ronald W. Chapman, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is Murder; the punishment, assessed by the jury, 75 years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

The indictment charged appellant with killing Grace Buckelew (his wife) "by hitting, striking and beating her with his hands and fists."

The State's evidence reflects that upon arriving home from work on April 17, 1966, appellant, after talking to Donald Green, his five-year-old stepson, severely...

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