Legal Opinion
Morris v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided June 11, 1952No. 25892Published
1Opinion of the Court
251 S.W.2d 731 (1952)
MORRIS
v.
STATE.
No. 25892.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 11, 1952.
Rehearing Denied October 15, 1952.
W. J. Durham, Dallas, Thomas H. Dent, Galveston, Henry E. Doyle, Houston, for appellant.
Sam W. Davis, Crim. Dist. Atty., King C. Haynie, Asst. Crim. Dist. Atty., Houston, George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.
MORRISON, Judge.
The offense is murder; the punishment, life.
By all the witnesses, it was established that the homicide occurred inside, and at the front end of, a City of Houston bus, while taking on passengers on Main Street at…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Cassell v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Morris v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1952
- McMurrin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1951
- Ross v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
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