Bertsch v. State

379 S.W.2d 657 (1964)

Edwin Marious BERTSCH, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 36395.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 15, 1964.

Rehearing Denied March 18, 1964.

Second Motion for Rehearing Denied May 13, 1964.

Paul Huser, Schulenburg, Werner J. Stavinoha, Weimar, Bob Looney (on appeal only), Houston, Tom Higgins (on appeal only), Austin, for appellant.

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

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The deceased was the 18 year old daughter of the…