Legal Opinion

Abston v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided April 24, 1940No. 20929Published

1Opinion

on state’s motion for rehearing.

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

The State in its motion for rehearing presents nothing which has not heretofore been considered by the court.

Nothing useful can be added to what was said in our original opinion on the present appeal, and what appears in our opinions upon the former appeals, reported in 132 Tex. Cr. R. 130, 102 S. W. (2d) 428, and in 136 Tex. Cr. R. 152, 123 S. W. (2d) 902.

The undisputed facts testified to by the officers themselves, leading up to securing of the first confession from appellant bring this case squarely under the opinion of the Supreme…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Abston v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1937
  2. Abston v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1938

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