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MITCHELL v. STATE

No. 59860.

586 S.W.2d 491 (1979)

Daniel William MITCHELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied October 24, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terrence A. Gaiser, Houston, for appellant.

Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., Lewis Dickson, III, and Connie B. Williams, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.

Rehearing En Banc Denied October 24, 1979.

OPINION ON APPELLANT'S MOTION FOR REHEARING

CLINTON, Judge.

Any method worthy of being called a "system" is expected to work at least tolerably well. What is now before us demonstrates, however, that sometimes the criminal justice system functions at a level well below acceptable tolerance. With the thought that critical evaluation of one operation of the mechanism may provoke self-examination of others...

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