Legal Opinion
Castillo v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided December 16, 1987No. 1022-84PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW
McCORMICK, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder and punishment was assessed at forty years’ confinement.
On original submission the Eastland Court of Appeals affirmed appellant’s conviction in an unpublished opinion. Castillo v. State, No. 11-84-053-Cr (Tex.App.—Eastland, delivered September 13, 1984). In one of his grounds of error in the Court of Appeals, appellant argued that the trial court erred in finding that appellant voluntarily waived his right to counsel during the taking of his statement. The Court of Appeals held that the…
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