BROOKS v. STATE

No. 44520.

475 S.W.2d 268 (1972)

Lee Belo BROOKS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 26, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones, Blakeslee, Minton, Burton & Fitzgerald, Austin, for appellant.

Robert O. Smith, Dist. Atty., Herman Gotcher, Sykes, Houston and Lawrence Wells, Asst. Dist. Attys., Austin, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This appeal arises out of a murder conviction where the penalty assessed by the jury was death.

Appellant initially complains of the introduction into evidence at the guilty state of the trial, over objection, of a temporary restraining order entered in a pending divorce suit between the appellant and the deceased on July 15, 1969, which order was not served upon the appellant until some 9 hours after the alleged killing...

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