SMITH v. STATE

No. 42288.

446 S.W.2d 883 (1969)

Billy Joe SMITH, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 12, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Patrick, Houston, for appellant.

Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., William W. Burge and J. Robert Musslewhite, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Judge.

OPINION

The offense is murder; the punishment, life.

The first four grounds of error presented by appellant's brief are as follows:

"The Appellant urges his Points of Error No. One, Two, Three and Four in part upon the basis that the State failed to prove the corpus delicti of the offense alleged in the Indictment by its failure to produce evidence that the alleged Deceased, Roberta...

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