Rubenstein v. State

OPINION

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, the President of the United States was ¡assassinated within the courthouse area in the city of Dallas. A short while thereafter Lee Harvey Oswald was apprehended, hut only after Patrolman Tippitt was killed in an effort to question him. Oswald was placed in the Dallas city jail. Two days later on November 24, in the basement of the city jail as Oswald was being transferred to the county jail, he was shot by •appellant at close range, from which wound be died. Countless…