Crossley v. State

SUGG, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

The appellant, Crossley, was tried in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County on a charge of capital murder. The circuit judge dismissed the case relating to the underlying felony due to the insufficiency of the evidence to establish that a robbery occurred. The case was submitted to the jury on the alternative instructions of murder and as an accessory before the fact. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder and the defendant appeals.

STATEMENT OF THE FACTS

Crossley and his traveling companion, Arthur Lee Gentry, were from Orange, Texas and had been…