Sanchez v. State

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment death.

In his first three grounds of error, appellant asserts that he was not properly *211warned of his right to counsel, and his right to terminate questioning as set forth in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 426, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694, 10 A.L.R.3d 974.

Appellant was arrested, and his confession taken on May 4, 1966, before the decision in Miranda, supra, which was effective as of June 13, 1966, Johnson v. New Jersey, 384 U.S. 719, 86 S.Ct. 1772, 16 L.Ed.2d 882. Appellant’s trial began on April 10, 1967.

The record reflects that…