Legal Opinion

Turner v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided November 26, 1969No. 42194Published

1Opinion of the Court

462 S.W.2d 9 (1969)

Oscar TURNER, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 42194.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 26, 1969.

Rehearing Denied March 4, 1970.

Joel W. Westbrook and Charles E. Wallace, Waco (court appointed counsel), for appellant.

Martin D. Eichelberger, Dist. Atty., Waco, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

Two men were killed and two injured by appellant by the use of a pistol during the course of a filling station robbery.

Appellant's 1st, 9th, and 29th grounds of error relate…

2Cases cited51 opinions

  1. United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. Boulden v. HolmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  4. George W. Bates v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1968
  5. Enriquez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1968

46 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.

Showing a preview — retrieve the full document via the Exa API.

Powered by the Exa API