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KING v. STATE

No. 44796.

473 S.W.2d 43 (1971)

James Richard KING, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 23, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Rodney Brister, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., and W. T. Westmoreland, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, and Jim D. Vollers State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This appeal challenges the constitutionality of an important innovation in Texas criminal procedure.

May an individual represented by counsel voluntarily waive the formal accusation or presentment of a grand jury indictment in a non-capital felony case and agree to be charged by an information signed by the prosecuting attorney?

Thus the question of the constitutionality of Article 1.141, Vernon's Ann.C.C.P...

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