Dorsey v. State

OPINION

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 99 years.

*334The indictment alleged that appellant did, on or about the 19th day of December 1966, voluntarily and with malice aforethought kill Charles Adran Barnard by shooting him with a gun.

The state elected not to seek the death penalty. Appellant entered a plea of not guilty and filed application for probation.

The trial began on April 18, 1967, Retired District Judge W. C. Dowdy having been assigned by the Presiding Judge of the First Administrative Judicial District under authority of Art. 200a Vernon’s Ann.T.S. to…