DILLARD v. STATE

No. 44871.

479 S.W.2d 304 (1972)

David Randall DILLARD, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 3, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerry O'Malley Walsh, Houston, for appellant.

Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., and Erwin Ernst, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder. The jury assessed the punishment at life.

David Dillard, the appellant, was sixteen years of age at the time of the homicide. The record reflects that in the early morning hours of a Sunday morning while he and Louis Teal were driving down the Eastex Freeway in Houston, Dillard shot and killed Marie Mitchell with a shotgun loaded with buckshot. The only apparent reason for the...

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