PHIFER v. STATE

No. 64359.

651 S.W.2d 774 (1983)

George David PHIFER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

May 25, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ed T. Smith, James S. Moss (on appeal only) Bonham, for appellant.

William E. Gandy, Dist. Atty., and Dan Meehan, Asst. Dist. Atty., Bonham, Robert Huttash, State's Atty. and Alfred Walker, Asst. State's Atty., and Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

In a jury trial appellant was found guilty of murder; punishment was assessed at confinement for life.

Appellant attacks the admission into evidence of a written statement made by him as a result of custodial interrogation, a statement which formed the core of the case against him. He complains of violations of his rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and under the...

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