MCMORRIS v. STATE

No. 49115.

516 S.W.2d 927 (1974)

Donnie Ray McMORRIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 18, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben H. Tompkins, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Tim Curry, Dist. Atty., T. J. Haire and William E. Burdock, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for resisting arrest by exhibiting a firearm; the jury assessed punishment at imprisonment for four years. The appellant argues that Article 341(b), V.A.P.C., under which this prosecution was had is unconstitutional, that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction, and that the prosecutor's jury argument was so harmful and prejudicial that it requires reversal of the judgment.

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