JOHNSON v. STATE

No. 56324.

604 S.W.2d 128 (1980)

Billie Ruth JOHNSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Panel No. 3.

Rehearing Denied September 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan K. Butcher, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Tim Curry, Dist. Atty., Marvin Collins, Jack Q. Neal, Jack J. Heinemann and Candyce W. Howell, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before DALLY, W. C. DAVIS and CLINTON, JJ.


OPINION

DALLY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder. The punishment is imprisonment for fifteen years.

Appellant contends that the trial court erred by permitting the prosecutor to refer to and display before the jury a pistol which had been held inadmissible in evidence. Appellant also contends that evidence of the deceased's use of marihuana was erroneously excluded, and that the prosecutor engaged in improper jury argument.

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