HUNTER v. STATE

No. 46385.

496 S.W.2d 44 (1973)

Mary Joe HUNTER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 20, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phil Burleson and James A. Mills, Jr., Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., W. T. Westmoreland, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Robert A. Huttash, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

JACKSON, Commissioner.

Trial before the court on a plea of not guilty resulted in a conviction of murder with malice; the punishment, twenty (20) years.

Almer Hunter, the deceased, was married to appellant, Mary Joe Hunter. They had three children and lived in an apartment in Dallas. Evidence of appellant's sister-in-law, Willie Pearl Hunter, showed that appellant had shot deceased about a year before the date of the alleged offense. On this...

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