CARTER v. STATE

No. 42407.

449 S.W.2d 70 (1969)

Wilma Charlene CARTER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 17, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marks, Time & Aranson, by Keith Marks, Dallas, for appellant.

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


OPINION

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment, life. The state did not seek the death penalty.

Trial was before a jury. A plea of not guilty was entered and an application for probation was filed.

The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction is not questioned.

The undisputed evidence shows that appellant killed the deceased by shooting her with a pistol, three shots having been fired...

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