Coleman v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment, assessed by the jury, 20 years.

The appellant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence. The record shows that the appellant shot his estranged wife, Armentha, four times while they were seated in a car, with their six-year-old daughter between them, at a Dairy Queen Drive-In in the City of Fort Worth on January 22, 1967.

In his first ground of error appellant contends the trial court erred in permitting the State to cross examine him as to extraneous and specific acts of gambling and wife-beating.

We cannot agree…