Legal Opinion
Chambers v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided May 24, 1978No. 54676PublishedCited by 136 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DOUGLAS, Judge.
Ronald Curtis Chambers appeals from a conviction for capital murder wherein the punishment was assessed at death.
Shortly after midnight on April 11, 1975, Mike McMahan and Deia Sutton, both college students, left a Dallas nightclub and entered McMahan’s car. Appellant, Clarence Ray Williams, Jr., and two other men occupied an adjacently parked automobile. Williams and appellant exited that automobile and forced their way into McMahan’s vehicle at gunpoint. Appellant ordered Sutton to get into the back seat with him. After laying a .410 shotgun on the rear floorboard, he…
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