Beard v. State

456 S.W.2d 82 (1970)

John Thomas BEARD, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 42870.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 20, 1970.

Rehearing Denied July 15, 1970.

Walter Boyd, Jr., Houston, for appellant.

Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., James C. Brough and Ray Montgomery, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, 99 years.

Appellant's first ground of error is that the court's charge did not limit the jury's consideration of the extraneous offenses to the issue of the flight of the…