Couch v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was given a sentence of fifty years in the penitentiary for murder with malice.

The facts of the case are circumstantial but sufficient to sustain the jury’s verdict.

The indictment returned by the grand jury contains six counts. Counts 1 and 2 charge murder with malice. Each of the other counts alleges murder without malice and each one further alleges two prior convictions for ordinary felony, as a basis for the imposition of a life sentence under Article 63 of the Penal Code.

Before announcing ready appellant filed his motion to quash this indictment, assuming that…