Dillard v. State

479 S.W.2d 304 (1972)

David Randall DILLARD, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 44871.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 3, 1972.

Gerry O'Malley Walsh, Houston, for appellant.

Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., and Erwin Ernst, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder. The jury assessed the punishment at life.

David Dillard, the appellant, was sixteen years of age at the time of the homicide. The record reflects that in the early morning hours of a Sunday morning while he and…