DeRAMUS v. STATE

No. 38551.

396 S.W.2d 383 (1965)

William Earnest DeRAMUS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 1, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl H. Steck, Lyman A. Hall, Joe J. Newman, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally, Charles E. Bonney and Erwin G. Ernst, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


McDONALD, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment, 30 years in the penitentiary.

It is undisputed that appellant killed the deceased, who was appellant's wife's stepfather, by shooting him with a gun on September 5, 1964, and in view of the disposition of the case, a brief summation of the facts will suffice.

Appellant and his family occupied an apartment located above the apartment of Willis Taylor, son of the deceased....

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