Gray v. State, No. 44291
| Court | Court of Appeals of Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas |
| Citation | 475 S.W.2d 246 |
| Decision Date | 30 November 1971 |
| Parties | George Edward GRAY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee. |
| Docket Number | No. 44291 |
Page 246
v.
The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Rehearing Denied Feb. 2, 1972.
Joe C. Shaffer, Houston (court appointed on appeal) for appellant.
Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., James C. Brough and Robert C. Bennett, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.
DAVIS, Commissioner.
This is an appeal from a conviction for murder with malice. The punishment was assessed by the jury at 75 years.
The record reflects that the appellant and deceased had been living with two sisters in the same house and that two days before the deceased was killed, the deceased had raped the sister appellant had been living with; that on the day in question, appellant went to the house where the girl deceased was to marry lived, and according to appellant, he took a gun with him because he knew that deceased had a gun, and that his purpose in going was to persuade deceased to leave town; that appellant asked deceased to go outside and talk and get things straight and that deceased got up from where he was seated, took a couple of steps, came out of his pocket with a pistol and said, 'I am not going anywhere with you'; that the appellant and deceased 'tussled' and appellant got his gun out of his back pocket and shot deceased. The medical examiner testified that deceased had five bullet wounds.
Appellant first complains of the court's charge on limitation of impeachment evidence. Appellant's second contention is that the court should not have given a charge to the jury on self-defense. Appellant's first objections to these portions of the court's charge were made when appellant's brief was filed. No written objection or special requested charge was filed in accordance with Articles 36.14 and 36.15, Vernon's Ann.C.C.P., and nothing, therefore, is presented for review. Spencer v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 466 S.W.2d 749; Baity v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 455 S.W.2d 305; Burleson v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 449 S.W.2d 252.
Appellant complains of admission into evidence of testimony calculated to connect the appellant with the extraneous offense of breaking and entering a coin-operated machine. There was testimony that appellant was seen leaving the scene of the shooting in a certain described black panel truck.
Officer Wehr, of the Houston Police Department, testified that he found a truck answering the description in a...
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