Martinez v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

It would serve no useful purpose to again restate the facts, as they are fully set forth in our original opinion affirming a prior death penalty conviction for this offense. See Martinez v. State, 167 Tex. Cr. Rep. 97, 318 S.W. 2d 66. They are substantially the same upon this trial, except that much more defensive evidence was adduced.

We address ourselves to the task of discussing the many questions of law raised by appellant in his exhaustive brief and in oral argument.

He first contends that the trial court erred in…