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HUGHES v. STATE

No. 42692.

455 S.W.2d 303 (1970)

Robert Allen HUGHES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 20, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Turman & Mitchell, by Joel B. Mitchell, Austin, for appellant.

Robert O. Smith, Dist. Atty., Robert A. Huttash and Herman C. Gotcher, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Austin, and Jim D. Vollers, Austin, for the State.

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, life.

George Tarver, the deceased, was shot and killed with a .38 caliber pistol at Maggie's Door, a bar on South Congress Avenue in Austin. The record reflects that some five construction workers, including the appellant and the deceased, had been drinking before they went to the bar and there they continued to drink. Charles Thomas Berry who was seated at a booth heard the shot...

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