Wilkerson v. State

OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for capital murder in which the punishment was assessed at death.

Because of our disposition of appellant’s seventh ground of error, a detailed recitation of the facts constituting the offense is obviated.1 That ground of error contends the trial court erred in admitting appellant’s inculpatory statement “which was involuntarily obtained in violation of the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States and Article I, Sections 10 and 19 of the Constitution of the State of Texas.”

Prior to trial, appellant…