Brooks v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This appeal arises out of a murder conviction where the penalty assessed by the jury was death.

Appellant initially complains of the introduction into evidence at the guilty stage of the trial, over objection, of a temporary restraining order entered in a pending divorce suit between the appellant and the deceased on July 15, 1969, which order was not served upon the appellant until some 9 hours after the alleged killing. Appellant contends the contents of the order were hearsay and inadmissible for any purpose, denied him the right of confrontation of witnesses…