Legal Opinion
Sampson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided November 25, 1953No. 26604Published
1Opinion of the Court
268 S.W.2d 661 (1953)
SAMPSON
v.
STATE.
No. 26604.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
November 25, 1953.
Rehearing Denied February 17, 1954.
Henry E. Doyle, Francis L. Williams, Bernard A. Golding, Houston, for appellant.
William H. Scott, Dist. Atty., King C. Haynie, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, Wesley Dice, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.
MORRISON, Judge.
The offense is murder; the punishment, death.
It was shown that Mrs. McCasland, while working in a flower shop alone, met her death on January 6, 1953, between 3:00 and 3:35 p.m. as the result of a gunshot wound. The money from the flower shop…
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