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ROBERTS v. STATE

No. 2-81-136-CR.

634 S.W.2d 767 (1982)

Vernon Walter ROBERTS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, State.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied June 30, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Foreman, DeGuerin & DeGuerin, and Lewis Dickson, Houston, for appellant.

Tim Curry, Dist. Atty., Fort Worth, and M. Eugene Grant, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., for State.

Before HUGHES, HOLMAN and RICHARD L. BROWN, JJ.

OPINION

RICHARD L. BROWN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder. Punishment was assessed by the jury at sixty-two years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

We reverse and remand.

A detailed rendition of the facts of this case is unnecessary. Suffice it to say, that on June 3, 1979, appellant forcibly entered the apartment of his estranged wife and fatally shot her, following a brief confrontation between the...

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