East v. State

420 S.W.2d 414 (1967)

Shelby Camp EAST, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 40480.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 28, 1967.

Rehearing Denied October 4, 1967.

Second Rehearing Denied November 22, 1967.

Albert Armendariz, Jesus B. Ochoa, Jr., El Paso, for appellant.

Barton Boling, Dist. Atty., El Paso, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder without malice; the punishment, five years.

Appellant's first ground of error is the exclusion by the court of certain testimony from Officer Alvarez. From counsel's statement to the…