Jackson v. State

OPINION

GREEN, Commissioner.

This appeal is from a conviction by jury verdict for murder with malice. Punishment was assessed at fifty (50) years.

The State’s evidence showed that at about 1:00 P.M. on August 29, 1971, in Fort Worth, appellant shot and killed his estranged wife on an access road to a freeway. He thereafter took her to his brother’s apartment where he was found with the body and arrested by two officers called to the location by eyewitnesses.

During the cross-examination of State’s witness Rettig, one of the arresting officers, it was developed that he had made a written police…