CASEY v. STATE

No. 50076.

527 S.W.2d 882 (1975)

Christopher Woods CASEY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

September 23, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kerry P. Fitzgerald, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., and Richard W. Wilhelm, Jim Burnham and Bob Hinton, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and David S. McAngus, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for robbery by firearms. The jury assessed punishment at fifty years.

The appellant contends that the improper range of punishment was submitted to the jury. He also contends that the jury was not properly instructed on the issue of the voluntariness of his statement.

In the early morning hours of May 24, 1973, a cab driver, Tommie L. Sanders, Jr., the complaining witness, received...

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