Cherry v. State

*748OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The appellant was convicted for murder; the jury assessed the punishment at death.

As a result of a phone call received from an officer of the Mesquite Police Department on the morning of January 10, 1969, Deputies Alvin Maddox, Jr. and Eddie Raymond Walthers of the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department went to the Eastern Hills Motel at 3422 Samuels Boulevard in Dallas to make an investigation. When the officers arrived, appellant, who was with Twyna Blankenship, a woman companion, invited them to enter the room. He asked, “Is anything wrong?” and was told by the…