Legal Opinion
Vessels v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided July 24, 1968No. 41019Published
1Opinion of the Court
432 S.W.2d 108 (1968)
T. R. VESSELS, Appellant,
v.
The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 41019.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
March 6, 1968.
On Rehearing July 24, 1968.
Rehearing Denied October 23, 1968.
Warren Burnett, Odessa, for appellant.
Bill W. Waters, Dist. Atty., Pampa, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.
OPINION
BELCHER, Judge.
The conviction is for rape; the punishment, death.
The appellant presents five grounds of error in his brief urging reversal.
In his motion for new trial filed November 8, 1966, appellant alleged in paragraph 7:
"The defendant would show to the court…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Edward Morgan MacKenna v. O. B. Ellis, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
- William B. Barbee v. Warden, Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1964
- Thomas Lorenzo Williams v. Dr. George Beto, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- United States of America Ex Rel. Thomas Meers, Relator-Appellee v. Walter H. Wilkins, Warden of Attica State Prison, Attica, New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1964
- Vessels v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1968
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