LAVALLAS v. STATE

No. 42131.

444 S.W.2d 931 (1969)

Alton Joseph LAVALLAS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 15, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin O. Teague, Houston, for appellant.

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


OPINION

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment assessed by the jury, 50 years.

The grounds of error complain: (1) that the evidence is insufficient to support the jury's finding that the killing was with malice aforethought; (2) that the trial court reversibly erred in admitting a confession of appellant; and (3) that the judgment of conviction is void because two different judges...

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