Roach v. State

OPINION

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, life.

Grounds of error Nos. 1, 2 and 3 relate to references by counsel for the state, in cross-examination of appellant, to the wife appellant had married after the killing, but before the trial, the contentions being (1) That the court allowed the state to indirectly use the appellant’s wife as a witness against him; (2) The court erred in failing to grant a mistrial when the state indirectly used appellant’s wife as a witness against him; (3) The state erred in alluding to the failure of the appellant to call his wife as…