JONES v. STATE

No. 49807.

522 S.W.2d 470 (1975)

Jeffery Leon JONES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied May 21, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert W. Green, Mayo J. Galindo and P. Joseph Brake, San Antonio, for appellant.

Ted Butler, Dist. Atty., Gordon V. Armstrong and Alan E. Battaglia, Asst. Dist. Attys., San Antonio, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and David S. McAngus, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 99 years.

The record reflects that Jif-E-Mart manager Edward Vasquez was shot and killed in his store on the afternoon of Friday, July 2, 1972. Investigators at the scene recovered a soft drink bottle on the counter from which they were able to obtain latent fingerprints.

Appellant's first four and last two grounds of error relate to the admission of his fingerprints and confession...

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