CLAY v. STATE

Nos. 47603-47605.

505 S.W.2d 882 (1974)

Verdell CLAY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee. Herbert MARTIN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee. Robert KNOX, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 6, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Brice Cunningham, L. A. Bedford, Jr., Dallas, for appellants.

Curtis L. Owen, Dist. Atty., Tyler, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Buddy Stevens, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The convictions are for murder; the punishment in each case, imprisonment for ninety-nine years.

Appellants raise thirty grounds of error, some of which have been grouped together for purposes of discussion.

In two grounds of error it is said the evidence is insufficient to show the appellants were acting as principals and insufficient to sustain the convictions. The...

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