White v. State

306 S.W.2d 903 (1957)

Charles WHITE, alias Charlie White, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 28879.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 24, 1957.

Rehearing Denied October 30, 1957.

J. P. Darrouzet, Victor Rogers, Austin, Percy Foreman, Houston (On Appeal Only), for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder, the indictment alleging that appellant killed the deceased "by strangling him with a wire"; the punishment was assessed at death.

Mrs. Lambert Berkman, daughter of the deceased, testified that the appellant…