Legal Opinion
Sellars v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided December 8, 1965No. 38620PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McDONALD, Presiding Judge.
The offense is robbery with firearms; the punishment, death.
The appellant was jointly indicted with Sam Hoover, John Oscar Young, and Samuel Spivey. A severance was granted, and appellant was tried alone in this case. The defendant, Sam Hoover, was convicted on the second count of the same indictment as an accomplice to robbery with firearms, and was given a term of sixty years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections. His case was affirmed by this Court in Hoover v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 390 S.W.2d 758. John Oscar Young’s case [Ex parte Young, Tex.Cr.App.,…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Escobedo v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Stickney v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1960
- Pennington v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1962
- Hoover v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1965
- Miller v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1965
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Sam Hoover v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
- Sam Hoover v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Calvin Sellars v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- Calvin Sellars v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
- Hoover v. BetoDistrict Court, S.D. Texas · 1969
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