Miller v. State

The appellant, convicted of murder and assessed life imprisonment by a jury, has played the game of courts and won. He has beaten the system.

The opinion of a panel of the San Antonio Court of Appeals reversing the conviction is left standing by today’s majority. The *438now 26-year-old appellant, who was 16 years old at the time of the alleged offense, cannot now be tried in any state court, adult or juvenile, for the 1974 murder of which the jury convicted him, the sufficiency of which evidence to sustain the conviction is not challenged by the appellant. After almost 10 years and proceedings…