KNOPPA v. STATE

No. 47374.

505 S.W.2d 802 (1974)

Anthony Michael KNOPPA, Jr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied March 13, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Ray Gayle, III, Angleton, for appellant.

Ogden Bass, Dist. Atty., Billy M. Bandy, Asst. Dist. Atty., Angleton, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Buddy Stevens, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, fifty (50) years.

Ground of error number one relates to the introduction of certain black and white pictures of the body of the deceased. This Court as presently constituted approaches the question of the admissibility of pictures of the body of a deceased under the guidelines which were set out in Martin v. State, 475 S.W.2d 265. This writer has expressed...

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