Purcell v. State

322 S.W.2d 268 (1958)

Clark R. PURCELL, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 29553.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 7, 1958.

Rehearing Denied November 5, 1958.

On Second Motion for Rehearing March 25, 1959.

Cofer & Cofer, by John D. Cofer, Austin, Tom Gambrell, Lockhart, E. B. Fuller, Austin, for appellant.

Wallace T. Barber, Dist. Atty., San Marcos, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Leon Jaworski, Houston, filed brief amici curiae.

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder with malice; the punishment, death.

The testimony of the state shows that the…