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WITHERSPOON v. STATE

No. 45290.

486 S.W.2d 953 (1972)

Alton Lafate WITHERSPOON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 29, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde W. Woody, Marian S. Rosen, Houston, for appellant.

Doug Crouch, Dist. Atty., John Brady and Don Burdette, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Robert A. Huttash, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder. The punishment was assessed at death. The Governor of Texas has commuted the punishment to life imprisonment.

The main complaints of the appellant concern the qualifications of the prospective jurors on the death penalty, the right of the Governor to commute the sentence and the proof of a prior conviction of the appellant for impeachment.

We affirm.

Appellant...

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