SHORT v. STATE

No. 48695.

511 S.W.2d 288 (1974)

Billy Joe SHORT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

July 10, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. R. Files, Jr., Tyler, for appellant.

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


OPINION

JACKSON, Commissioner.

The conviction was for murder with malice; the punishment, death, which has been commuted to life by the Governor upon the recommendation of the Board of Pardons and Paroles.

Hattie Wilson operated a small grocery store east of Tyler on the Chandler Highway in Smith County. She was found in a dying condition in her store on the afternoon of September 4, 1970. She had been severely beaten in the head with an axe handle...

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