EMERSON v. STATE

No. 44597.

476 S.W.2d 686 (1972)

Wesley S. EMERSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 23, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pounds & King by Minor E. Pounds, Lubbock, for appellant.

Blair Cherry, Jr., Dist. Atty., Richard Maxwell, Asst. Dist. Atty., Lubbock, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for robbery. Trial was before a jury, with punishment assessed by the jury at imprisonment for life, a prior conviction having been alleged in the indictment for enhancement purposes.

Appellant asserts four grounds of error in his brief. In his first ground of error, he contends that Article 62, Vernon's Ann.P.C. is unconstitutional. He enumerates four reasons why he considers the statute...

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