JONES v. STATE

No. 47432.

504 S.W.2d 906 (1974)

Dennis Earl JONES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 6, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Simmons, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Robert T. Baskett, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Buddy Stevens, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment, 999 years.

Appellant urges three grounds of error, none of which challenges the sufficiency of the evidence.

In his first ground, appellant contends that the jury's verdict is cruel and unusual punishment. This Court has held that if the penalty is within the prescribed limits set by the Legislature the jury's verdict will not be disturbed. In the very recent opinion...

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