Legal Opinion

Ex parte Perkins

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided May 18, 1966No. 39695PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of the Seventy-first Judicial District refusing to grant bail in a murder case.

At the hearing the State introduced the evidence of three witnesses who were present at the scene. Each of them testified that two shots were fired in the direction of one Tanghlyn, who was not armed and made no motion toward appellant, as the result of a remark made by Tanghlyn to his companions which was resented by appellant while all the parties were engaged in a dice game. The second shot caused the death of another participant, one…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Ex parte ParkerCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1963

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Villasana v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1967

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