Legal Opinion
Hinkle v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided May 21, 1969No. 42071PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ONION, Judge.
The offense is murder with malice; the punishment, 99 years and 1 day.
The indictment charged appellant with the shooting death of Louis L. Sander, an on-duty Houston City Police Officer, on or about January 21, 1967.
We shall first consider appellant’s last two grounds of error. In ground of error #15 he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction contending the trial court erred in failing to grant his motion for instructed verdict.
On the evening of January 21, 1967, shortly after 9 p. m. the deceased Sander was chatting with his partner, Officer…
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