COBBS v. STATE

No. 46356.

495 S.W.2d 900 (1973)

Dianna COBBS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 13, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dale Jones, Worley & Wright, Lubbock, for appellant.

Blair Cherry, Jr., Dist. Atty., Bob D. Odom, Asst. Dist. Atty., Lubbock, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Robert A. Huttash, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

JACKSON, Commissioner.

The conviction on a plea of not guilty by a jury was for murder with malice; the punishment, by the jury, was twenty (20) years.

The evidence disclosed that appellant and the deceased, Frankie John Spivey, had lived together off and on in a romantic relationship and had a child. There had been some threats each towards the other. On March 13, 1971, the night of the homicide, the appellate went out with Imogene Bowden...

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