Fentis v. State

OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction for murder under our former Penal Code. A jury assessed punishment at thirty-eight years.

Two grounds of error are raised. The first contends that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of appellant’s resistance of arrest, flight, and eventual arrest, during which episode a police officer was shot in the knee. These events occurred in Garland; the murder forming the basis of this prosecution occurred in Houston. The trial court admitted all the above evidence upon the theory that the resistance to arrest, assault, and flight were…