COLEMAN v. STATE

No. 42102.

442 S.W.2d 338 (1969)

Ossie Lee COLEMAN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 21, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Dickens, Fort Worth, (On Appeal Only) for appellant.

Frank Coffey, Dist. Atty., Ronald H. Hill, Jr., William A. Knapp and Truman Power, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment, assessed by the jury, 20 years.

The appellant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence. The record shows that the appellant shot his estranged wife, Armentha, four times while they were seated in a car, with their six-year-old daughter between them, at a Dairy Queen Drive-In in the City of Fort Worth on January 22, 1967...

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