PATTESON v. STATE

No. A14-81-034-CR.

633 S.W.2d 549 (1982)

John Douglas PATTESON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston Fourteenth District.

Rehearing Denied March 25, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ted Redington, Dallas, for appellant.

George McCall Secrest, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, for appellee.

Before J. CURTISS BROWN, C. J., and JUNELL and PRICE, JJ.


PRICE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for attempted capital murder. The court found the appellant guilty and assessed punishment at five years imprisonment. We overrule appellant's ground of error alleging fundamentally defective indictment for failure to use the phrase "act that is beyond mere preparation ...", and we also overrule appellant's evidentiary grounds of error relating to lie detector test results. We affirm.

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