FONTENOT v. STATE

No. 47407.

500 S.W.2d 843 (1973)

Matthew David FONTENOT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 7, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred A. Carver, Beaumont, for appellant.

Tom Hanna, Dist. Atty., John R. DeWitt, Asst. Dist. Atty., Beaumont, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

JACKSON, Commissioner.

Trial of appellant before a jury on a plea of not guilty resulted in a verdict of guilty of robbery with a firearm; the punishment, fifteen (15) years.

Appellant's attorney presents only one ground of error, that he was denied the right to be confronted by the witness Mrs. Viney Dixon, the person alleged to have been robbed, because the court did not delay the voir dire examination of the jurors until Mrs. Dixon was...

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