MORRIS v. STATE

No. 42062.

442 S.W.2d 703 (1969)

Orvil Clinton MORRIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied July 16, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mullinax, Wells, Mauzy, Levy & Richards, by Jay M. Vogelson, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Malcolm Dade, Camille Elliott and James P. Finstrom, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, five years.

The record reflects that Orvil Clinton Morris killed his wife and her paramour while they were in bed. This prosecution was for the murder of his wife.

Appellant contends that the State did not prove that his wife was not shot by accident, and that there was no proof of intent to kill her or that his intent was unlawful when he shot her. In effect the sufficiency of...

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