BLANCO v. STATE

No. 44001.

471 S.W.2d 70 (1971)

John BLANCO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 20, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Ryan, Houston, for appellant.

Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., Phyllis Bell and James A. Moseley, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Jim P. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment, forty (40) years.

In his first four grounds of error, appellant complains that the State was allowed to bolster the testimony of one of its witnesses; that the State was allowed to prove through its own witness that the deceased and appellant were not arguing prior to the fight; that the State was allowed to prove that the proprietor of the bar wherein the shooting took place...

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