Legal Opinion
Collins v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided October 2, 1961No. 33514PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DICE, Judge.
The offense is murder; the punishment, 99 years.
This is a companion case to Morgan v. State, (Page 187 of this volume), 346 S.W. 2d 116, wherein appellant’s co-indictee, Maggie Morgan, was convicted for the murder of Mrs. Wilma B. Selby, deceased, and assessed punishment at death.
*586The evidence adduced by the state in the two cases, with exception of appellant’s written confession, is substantially the same, and, as fully set forth and found sufficient in the opinion of this court affirming the death penalty conviction, shows that on the night of November 16, 1959, the deceased was…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Culombe v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Townsend v. BurkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Spano v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Haley v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Clarence Collins v. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1965
- Dykes v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1983
- State v. TraubSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1962
- Coursey v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1970
- Fernandez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1962
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