HENLEY v. STATE

Nos. 53561-53566.

576 S.W.2d 66 (1978)

Elmer Wayne HENLEY, Jr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied January 24, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Will Gray, Terrence A. Gaiser, Edwin F. Pegelow, Houston, Rudy Esquivel, San Antonio, for appellant.

Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., James C. Brough and Don L. Lambright, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, Lucien B. Campbell and Douglas C. Young, Asst. Dist. Attys., San Antonio, for the State.

Before the Court en banc.


OPINION

PHILLIPS, Judge.

The following opinion was largely the work of the late Honorable Howard P. Green, Commissioner of the Court of Criminal Appeals.

In a single trial before a jury appellant was convicted for murder with malice in six cases. See Articles 1256 and 1257(b), V.A. P.C., 1925. Punishment was assessed by the jury at 99 years in each of the six causes. The court ordered that the sentences run consecutively.

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