VILLARREAL v. STATE

No. 52800.

547 S.W.2d 281 (1977)

Mateo N. VILLARREAL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied March 16, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Meyer, San Antonio, for appellant.

Ted Butler, Dist. Atty., Gordon V. Armstrong, Sharon MacRae and Susan D. Reed, Asst. Dist. Attys., San Antonio, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., 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 15 years.

The appellant asserts that inflammatory and prejudicial photographs were admitted in evidence, over his timely objection, which require the reversal of this conviction.

The court admitted three photographs (State's Exhibits Nos. 10, 11, and 12) which portray the same scene, but which were...

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