JACKSON v. STATE

No. 47057.

504 S.W.2d 488 (1974)

Charles Vernon JACKSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 23, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Loving, III, Dallas (On appeal only), for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Jerome L. Croston, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Buddy Stevens, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for robbery; the punishment, fifty years' imprisonment.

The appellant first asserts that the trial court erred in overruling his motion for severance and in forcing him into a joint trial with James L. Morgan. The motion for severance filed on the day of trial alleged that Morgan, a co-defendant, had previously been convicted and assessed a death penalty for murder.1 No evidence...

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