PRESCOTT v. STATE

No. 1159-85.

744 S.W.2d 128 (1988)

Joe Willie PRESCOTT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

January 27, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig A. Washington, Houston, for appellant.

Tim Curry, Dist. Atty. and C. Chris Marshall and Mary Thornton Taylor, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION ON APPELLANT'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

DUNCAN, Judge.

Appellant was found guilty by a jury of murder. Tex.Penal Code Ann. § 19.02 (Vernon 1974). Punishment was thereafter assessed by the jury at thirty-five years in the Texas Department of Corrections. The appellant's conviction was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Second Judicial District in a published opinion. Prescott v. State, 696 S.W.2d...

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