MURPHY v. STATE

No. 912-82.

665 S.W.2d 116 (1983)

Clyde Clifton MURPHY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

Dissenting Opinion Overruling Rehearing February 8, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Percy Foreman, Lewis Dickson, Houston, for appellant.

Gerald A. Goodwin, Dist. Atty., Joe Crawford and Wesley Hoyt, Asst. Dist. Attys., Lufkin, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the Court en banc.


OPINION ON APPELLANT'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

TOM G. DAVIS, Judge.

Appeal is taken from a conviction for murder. The jury assessed punishment at 99 years and a fine of $10,000.00. The conviction was affirmed by the Beaumont Court of Appeals, Ninth Supreme Judicial District. We granted appellant's petition for discretionary review in order to examine the Court of Appeals' holding that neither the indictment nor the trial court's charge is fundamentally...

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