HAMILTON v. STATE

No. 45000.

480 S.W.2d 685 (1972)

Willie James HAMILTON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 7, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald T. Calhoun, Houston, for appellant.

Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., Phyllis Bell and Jim Skelton, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment sixty-five (65) years.

The record reflects that three men attempted to rob a Harris County liquor store but were foiled in their effort by an off-duty police officer who was shopping at the store with his wife. The officer testified that after he felled one of the robbers, who had just shot a customer, he saw the appellant, armed with a .25 caliber pistol, holding the deceased...

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