Parker v. State

432 S.W.2d 526 (1968)

Jessie Leon PARKER, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 41395.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

July 24, 1968.

Browne & Moore by John J. Browne, Houston, (by appointment on appeal only), for appellant.

Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., James C. Brough and Erwin G. Ernst, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 10 years.

The indictment alleged that on or about August 24, 1966, appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Helen Kelley "by drowning her in…