HARRELSON v. STATE

No. 48781.

511 S.W.2d 957 (1974)

Charles HARRELSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

July 24, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Percy Foreman & Dick DeGuerin, Houston, for appellant.

Oscar McInnis, Dist. Atty. and Thomas P. Berry, Asst. Dist. Atty., Edinburg, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

Conviction is for murder with malice; the punishment, fifteen years.

The only relief appellant requests is that this Court enter an order that the appellant be given credit for time appellant spent in jail from the date an indictment was served upon him until the date of sentence, being some five years from December 9, 1968, to September 5, 1973.

Prior to a 1973 amendment to Article 42.03, Vernon's Ann.C.C.P., a trial...

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