Pruitt v. State

355 S.W.2d 528 (1962)

Ruth Ester PRUITT, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 34207.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 31, 1962.

Rehearing Denied March 21, 1962.

John Cutler, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., and Lee P. Ward, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, life.

In view of our disposition of this appeal, a statement of facts will not be deemed necessary.

The indictment alleged that the offense occurred in September, 1951, but…