Carroll v. State

397 S.W.2d 82 (1965)

Clifford Darrell CARROLL, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 38373.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

October 4, 1965.

Rehearing Denied November 24, 1965.

Second Motion for Rehearing Denied January 5, 1966.

Al Clyde, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Doug Crouch, Dist. Atty., Albert F. Fick, Jr., Grady Hight and Jack Beach, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The evidence presented by the state shows that while not legally married to her, the appellant lived…