Nash v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder where the punishment was assessed by the jury at 100 years.

On February 20, 1969, at approximately 4:30 p. m., Henry Moore was found shot to death in his taxi cab on 33rd Street, a lonely unimproved road just outside the city limits of Tyler. His watch and money were missing. The State relied principally for conviction upon the testimony of one witness who placed the appellant in the taxi cab a short time before Moore’s body was discovered and appellant’s extrajudicial confessions of June 2 and June 3, 1969.

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