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RIVAS v. STATE

No. 47316.

501 S.W.2d 918 (1973)

Joe RIVAS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 5, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raul E. Guerra, San Antonio (on appeal only), for appellant.

Ted Butler, Dist. Atty., Charles T. Conaway, Dick Ryman, David K. Chapman, Asst. Dist. Attys., San Antonio, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Buddy Stevens, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, fifteen years' imprisonment.

The State's principal witness was an eleven year old shoeshine boy who had observed the appellant run out of a bar, unlock the trunk of an automobile, remove a rifle and shoot the deceased. One of the appellant's grounds of error is that he was not permitted to show this witness' juvenile delinquency record for the purpose of impeaching him.

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