ANDERSON v. STATE

No. 50139.

525 S.W.2d 20 (1975)

Charles Wayne ANDERSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

July 9, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James O. Terrell, Waco, for appellant.

Martin D. Eichelberger, Dist. Atty., Lynn Malone and Edward Springer, Asst. Dist. Attys., Waco, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and David S. McAngus, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder; the appellant's punishment assessed by a jury is imprisonment for five thousand years. The judgment must be reversed because of the improper jury argument made by the Assistant District Attorney.

The evidence is that the appellant, after drinking beer and taking "pills," armed himself with a sawed-off shotgun and knives, and then he broke into the house where his estranged...

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