Legal Opinion
Burkhalter v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided February 21, 1973No. 44675PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROBERTS, Judge.
The offense is accomplice to murder with malice; the punishment, life.
Appellant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence and, therefore, a detailed recitation of the facts is unnecessary. It suffices to say that appellant, a physician, was indicted as an accomplice to murder with malice in the death of Robert J. Pendleton, a fellow physician. Del Monte Whitehurst, a key prosecution witness, and two others were indicted as principals in the same offense- A companion case is Tucker v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 461 S.W.2d 630.
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2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Giglio v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Napue v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Argersinger v. HamlinSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Mooney v. HolohanSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
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3Cited by80 opinions
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