Legal Opinion
Durrough v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided July 22, 1981No. 65792PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROBERTS, Judge.
The appellant has been indicted and placed on trial three times for the murder of Henry S. Tyler. The first trial, Cause No. 74-CR-575-A, was aborted when the trial court granted the State’s motion to dismiss the original indictment after only five jurors had been selected and sworn. The appellant was reindicted and found guilty of the offense of capital murder in Cause No. 74-CR-2140-A, but that judgment was reversed on appeal because the trial court erred in failing to grant a change of venue upon the appellant’s un-controverted application. Durrough v. State, 562…
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