BRANNON v. STATE

No. 28490.

296 S.W.2d 760 (1956)

W. J. BRANNON alias Jim Shannon, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

October 31, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rex Emerson, Odessa, for appellant.

Warren Burnett, Dist. Atty., Odessa, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is a violation of Article 1268a, Vernon's Ann.P.C., which denounces a threat to take life or injure property for the purpose of extorting money from the person threatened; the punishment, 25 years.

The witness Roden, a resident of Odessa in Ector County, testified that on the day before the date alleged in the indictment he began to receive threatening telephone calls from a man who identified himself as "the professor...

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