Legal Opinion

Walker v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided October 8, 1980No. 63019Published

1Opinion of the Court

610 S.W.2d 481 (1980)

Joseph Vernon WALKER, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 63019.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Panel No. 2.

October 8, 1980.

Paul A. Clark, Lufkin (Court-appointed), for appellant.

Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before DOUGLAS, ROBERTS and CLINTON, JJ.

OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

Appeal is taken from a conviction for the offense of murder wherein the jury, impaneled to set punishment upon appellant's plea of guilty, assessed such punishment at confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections for a term of ninety nine years.

In his sole ground of…

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2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Harrington v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. Boyde v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1974
  4. J. Monroe Dunn v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
  5. White v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1969

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