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VAUGHN v. STATE

No. 58432.

607 S.W.2d 914 (1980)

Donald VAUGHN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Panel No. 2.

January 30, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Belvin R. Harris, Gainesville, Minter & Ables, Madill, Okl., for appellant.

Jerry W. Woodlock, Dist. Atty., Gainesville, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before ODOM, TOM G. DAVIS and CLINTON, JJ.

OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

Buster Northern was made infamous and judges became timorous1 some thirty years ago by the backlash of Northern v. State, 150 Tex.Cr.R. 511, 203 S.W.2d 206 (1947).2 Now, appealing from a conviction for the offense of murder and a life sentence, in what is surely the most audacious bit of advocacy in recent times, appellant cites and would have us follow Northern....

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