Legal Opinion

Collins v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided October 2, 1961No. 33514Published

1Opinion of the Court

352 S.W.2d 841 (1961)

Clarence COLLINS, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Texas. Appellee.

No. 33514.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

October 2, 1961.

Rehearing Denied January 10, 1962.

William F. Walsh, of Foreman & Walsh, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., and Charles C. Castles, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 99 years.

This is a companion case to Morgan v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 346 S.W.2d 116, wherein appellant's coindictee, Maggie Morgan, was convicted…

2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
  2. Culombe v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  3. Townsend v. BurkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
  4. Spano v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
  5. Haley v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1948

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