PORTER v. STATE

No. 41816.

436 S.W.2d 159 (1969)

Johnny Lee PORTER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 22, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Kinne, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Ken Blassingame, David Johnson, Kerry FitzGerald, Malcolm Dade and Camille Elliott, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, life.

Appellant's first ground of error is that he was deprived of his constitutional rights by the failure of the State to reveal to him the name of the informer who supplied the information leading to the arrest of appellant. There is no showing in the record that appellant gave a reason for or demonstrated any necessity which would have justified revealing the identity of the unnamed...

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