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SIMMONS v. STATE

No. 04-81-00035-CR.

636 S.W.2d 226 (1982)

Merrill Earl SIMMONS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

May 26, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick Roland Ganne, Law Offices of M. N. Garcia, Austin, for appellant.

Bill M. White, Dist. Atty., Monica L. Donahue, Asst. Dist. Atty., San Antonio, for appellee.

Before KLINGEMAN, CLARK and BASKIN, JJ.

OPINION

KLINGEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder. Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 19.02 (Vernon 1974). After the jury found appellant guilty, the trial court assessed punishment at confinement for a term of thirty (30) years.

The body of the deceased was found with a gun shot wound in the head in Martin Luther King Park in San Antonio. Subsequently, appellant was arrested in Fort Worth in possession of deceased's automobile...

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