Clay v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The convictions are for murder; the punishment in each case, imprisonment for ninety-nine years.

Appellants raise thirty grounds of error, some of which have been grouped together for purposes of discussion.

In two grounds of error it is said the evidence is insufficient to show the appellants were acting as principals and insufficient to sustain the convictions. The victim, Van Louis Lyles, was working at Roadway Express Motor Freight terminal in Tyler on the afternoon of July 8, 1971. Lyles was on the truck loading docks with another truck driver, Jerry Gilbert,…