CHAMBLISS v. STATE

No. 569-82.

647 S.W.2d 257 (1983)

Kelly Joe CHAMBLISS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, en banc.

February 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Lou Cassidy, court appointed, Midland, for appellant.

Vern F. Martin, Dist. Atty. and Robert L. Sutphen, Asst. Dist. Atty., Midland, Robert Huttash, State's Atty. and Alfred Walker, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION ON APPELLANT'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

MILLER, Judge.

After a jury trial, appellant was found guilty of murder and sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison. His appeal was originally to this court, but after the 1980 amendments to Article Five of the Texas Constitution altered the state's appellate framework, we transferred the cause to the Eighth Supreme Judicial District Court of Appeals. Rejecting all of appellant's eleven grounds of...

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