Bowles v. State

324 S.W.2d 841 (1959)

Bryant William BOWLES, Jr., Appellant,

v.

STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 30374.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 11, 1959.

Rehearing Denied May 20, 1959.

Baldwin & Goodwin, by Joe B. Goodwin, Beaumont, Votaw & Wharton, by E. B. Votaw, Vidor, for appellant.

Robert S. Coe, Dist. Atty., Kountze, Earl Stover, County Attorney, Silsbee, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, life.

The testimony of the state shows and the appellant while testifying in his own behalf admitted that he shot the…