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CHAPPEL v. STATE

No. 45481.

489 S.W.2d 923 (1973)

Larry CHAPPEL and Felix Hornsby, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied February 21, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rollin Khoury, Waco, Court Appointed for Larry Chappell.

Paxton King Littlepage, Mart, Court Appointed for Felix Hornsby.

Martin D. Eichelberger, Dist. Atty., Kenneth H. Crow, O. F. Jones and Randall Sellers, Asst. Dist. Attys., Waco, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Robert A. Huttash, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

These appellants were jointly tried and convicted of robbery by firearms and the punishment was assessed at 27 years in each case.

The record reflects that Cledis Weatherford and his wife, Sandra, were robbed of money at gun point at the Bar X Motel in Waco in the early morning hours of October 13, 1970. Weatherford was shot twice in the head and his wife was shot in the back. Weatherford identified both Chappell and...

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