Legal Opinion
Ruth v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided May 16, 1979No. 55903PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROBERTS, Judge.
On the retrial of this cause after we reversed and remanded (Ruth v. State, 522 S.W.2d 517 (Tex.Cr.App.1975)), a jury again found the appellant to be guilty of murder with malice and assessed his punishment at 15 years’ confinement. The appellant raises several grounds of error which turn on our determination of whether he was in custody when he was questioned by police officers.
When this questioning took place in 1973, V.A.C.C.P., Article 38.22 (1967 Texas Acts, chapter 659, section 23) generally made inadmissible the oral confession of a defendant made while the…
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