Denney v. State

OPINION

PHILLIPS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of capital murder; the punishment, death.

On March 15, 1976, the body of Russell James Frey was found in a work shed near his travel trailer, located in the Rio Grande Valley near Harlingen. The body was badly decomposed and through the testimony of Dr. Charles Folsom, a pathologist, it was established that the deceased had been dead at least three or four days but that it was more likely that the deceased had been dead at least five days. Death was the result of strangulation with an electric cord.

James L. Burress, a…