Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Cruz
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided October 28, 1987No. 69394Published
1Opinion of the Court
739 S.W.2d 53 (1987)
Ex parte Roland CRUZ.
No. 69394.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.
October 28, 1987.
Gerald E. Bourque, Bellaire, for appellant.
John B. Holmes, Jr., Dist. Atty., and Eleanor Montague McCarthy, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.
Before the court en banc.
OPINION
McCORMICK, Judge.
This is a habeas corpus application filed pursuant to Article 11.07, V.A.C.C.P. After a jury trial, applicant was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. The trial judge assessed punishment at 5 years' confinement. The Houston Court of Appeals…
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