Legal Opinion
Smith v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided January 11, 1961No. 32533PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DICE, Judge.
The offense is murder; the punishment, death.
The appellant and Adrian Johnson were jointly charged by indictment with the murder of William Merrill Bodenheimer.
Upon the granting of a severance, Johnson was separately tried and convicted with his punishment assessed at death. Upon appeal to this court, the judgment of conviction was affirmed in an opinion which is found reported in Johnson v. State, 169 Tex. Cr. R. 612, 336 S.W. 2d 175.
The facts in the two cases are similar and show that on the afternoon of July 20, 1959, the deceased, a young boy twelve years of age, left home on…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Payne v. ArkansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Golemon v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1952
- Dimery v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1951
- Head v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1954
- Henson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1953
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Jurek v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1975
- Jerry Lane Jurek v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
- Joe Edward Smith v. Jack Heard, Acting Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1963
- Lacefield v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1967
- Joe Edward Smith v. The State of TexasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
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