LOPEZ v. STATE

Nos. 45097, 45098.

482 S.W.2d 179 (1972)

Charlie Carlos LOPEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee. Gregory JIMENEZ, Jr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied July 28, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Jones (Court Appointed on Appeal), and Shelton W. Booth, Dallas (Court Appointed on Appeal), for Charlie Carlos Lopez, and Melvyn Carson Bruder, Dallas, (Court Appointed on Appeal) for Gregory Jimenez, Jr.

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


Rehearing Denied in No. 45098 July 28, 1972.

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

These are appeals from convictions for murder, both obtained in a joint trial. The jury assessed the punishment for each at 250 years.

The appellants contend that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction and that the pistol shown to have been used in the homicide was improperly introduced into evidence. Complaint is made by

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