Legal Opinion
David v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided March 18, 1970No. 42663PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ONION, Judge.
The offense is murder; the punishment, death.
The record reflects that shortly before midnight on April 10, 1967, the appellant and one Cornelius Tea entered a drive-in grocery in Harris County, Texas. The lone attendant, Mrs. Judy Moss, recognized them as having been in the store a few minutes earlier. The appellant placed a pistol to her head and forced her to the cash register from which he took money as well as from under the counter. While at the cash register Mrs. Moss pressed a silent alarm connected to the nearby house of the deceased, Bob Farley, her father, who…
2Cases cited45 opinions
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3Cited by50 opinions
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- Tezeno v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
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