Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Tuttle
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided July 9, 1969No. 41518PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.
This is a habeas corpus proceeding by an inmate of the Texas Department of Corrections attacking the validity of the life sentence under which he is confined.
The life term was assessed by a jury in Cause No. 44,314 in Criminal District Court (now the 144th District Court) of Bexar County, Texas, on July 6, 1942.
The indictment in said cause returned April 28, 1938, alleged that on or about April 23, 1938, appellant unlawfully, voluntarily and with his malice aforethought, killed William A. Sullivan by striking, beating and bruising him with a bottle. 1
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2Cases cited9 opinions
- Pate v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Moore v. MichiganSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- State v. OlsenTexas Supreme Court · 1962
- Townsend v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1968
- Huey R. Lee v. State of AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Nilsson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
- Manning v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1987
- Tules v. Zapata v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- Ex Parte YarboroughCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1980
- Villarreal v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)1985
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