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GIVENS v. STATE

No. 53468.

554 S.W.2d 199 (1977)

Eugene Lorenza GIVENS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied September 14, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rodney L. Poirot and Lawrence B. Mitchell, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Maridell J. Templeton, David C. Schick and Winfield W. Scott, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, 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 the offense of voluntary manslaughter; the punishment is imprisonment for 16 years.

The review of the appellant's grounds of error does not require a full statement of facts. The evidence shows that the appellant shot and killed a man on a Dallas city street.

In each of six grounds of error the appellant complains of the prosecutor's argument. The first is that the prosecutor...

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