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MEANS v. STATE

No. 42641.

451 S.W.2d 517 (1970)

Stanley Eugene MEANS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 4, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel L. Egger, San Antonio, for appellant.

James E. Barlow, Dist. Atty., and Sparta Bitsis, Asst. Dist. Atty., San Antonio, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

WOODLEY, Presiding Justice.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 99 years.

The indictment returned June 12, 1968, alleged that on or about December 13, 1965, appellant did voluntarily and with malice aforethought kill and murder Houston Arnold Willis by choking and strangling him with an electric cord and by choking and strangling him with a necktie.1

After entering a plea of not guilty upon arraignment...

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