Legal Opinion
Russell v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided April 17, 1986No. 2-85-010-CRPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HUGHES, Justice (Retired).
Harold Russell has appealed his judgment of conviction of the offense of murder, see TEX.PENAL CODE ANN. sec. 19.02 (Vernon 1974), for which he was assessed twenty-five years in the Texas Department of Corrections.
We affirm.
The statement of facts in this case reveals that on January 13, 1984, the body of the deceased was found in the trunk of a partially burned car. He had been beaten with a blunt instrument, placed alive in the trunk, and then asphyxiated from carbon monoxide poisoning. A paper in the car led police to appellant’s sister’s residence. As it…
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