Sanders v. State

402 S.W.2d 735 (1966)

J. D. SANDERS, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 39274.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 30, 1966.

Rehearing Denied May 25, 1966.

James A. Moore, Clyde W. Woody, Fred H. Dailey, Jr., and John P. Farra, Houston, for appellant.

Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., James C. Brough and Thomas C. Dunn, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, life.

The indictment alleged that appellant, on or about the 5th day of July, 1964, "did with malice aforethought kill James Mason…