DUNCAN v. STATE

No. 43259.

459 S.W.2d 822 (1970)

John Ross DUNCAN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 25, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Ray, Gordon Whitman, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Frank Coffey, Dist. Atty., Truman Power, Wayne Roberts, Otto Stephani, Jr., and Timothy Thompson, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is robbery by firearms; the punishment, thirty-two (32) years.

Appellant's first and second grounds of error assert that he was unduly limited in interrogating his mother as to his mental condition following drinking sprees. There is nothing in the record to show what testimony of the witness would have been had it been permitted. It is axiomatic that in order to reflect reversible error upon the excluded evidence...

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