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CATO v. STATE

No. 51183.

534 S.W.2d 135 (1976)

Billy Don CATO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied March 31, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vern F. Martin, Midland (Court-appointed), for appellant.

James A. Mashburn, Dist. Atty., Jack K. Rusty Wall, Asst. Dist. Atty., Midland, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and David S. McAngus, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

GREEN, Commissioner.

In a trial before a jury, appellant was convicted of murder. Punishment was assessed at life imprisonment.

The indictment alleged the cause of death as being "by strangling her with his hands, and by strangling her with a cord, and by strangling her with a wire, and by strangling her with a belt, and by strangling her in a manner to the Grand Jurors unknown."1

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