WHITFIELD v. STATE

No. 45931.

492 S.W.2d 502 (1973)

Katha Lee Josephine WHITFIELD, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 25, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allie L. Peyton, Houston, for appellant.

Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., Phyllis Bell and Jack Bodiford, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Robert A. Huttash, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This appeal arises out of a murder without malice conviction wherein the punishment was assessed by the jury at two years.

In her first two grounds of error, appellant contends the trial court erred in overruling her motion for an instructed verdict when the State rested its case in chief, and another such motion after both sides closed "in that all of the evidence showed the defendant was acting in defense of her...

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