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CAMPBELL v. STATE

No. 46264.

496 S.W.2d 619 (1973)

Joe Louis CAMPBELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 27, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brantley Pringle, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Doug Crough, Dist. Atty., William A. Knapp, Robert S. Williams and J. J. Heinemann, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty. and Robert A. Huttash, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction for the offense of murder. Punishment was assessed at twenty years.

The evidence shows that on June 22, 1968, at approximately 8:00 P.M., appellant and several other men were gathered in front of a cafe in Fort Worth. There was a disturbance and the owner of the cafe, Fred Rodgers, after an earlier admonishment to appellant, asked him and the others to leave. A short time thereafter, appellant...

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