HEARTFIELD v. STATE

No. 43904.

470 S.W.2d 895 (1971)

Aaron HEARTFIELD, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 13, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John K. Coil, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., John B. Tolle, Harry J. Schulz, Jr., W. T. Westmoreland, Jr., and Edgar A. Mason, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction for the offense of murder with malice; the punishment was assessed by a jury at 75 years.

Appellant alleges nine grounds of error, none of which challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. The first is that the court erred by excusing a juror without proper hearing.

The record reflects that the voir dire examination of prospective jurors began at 1:00 P.M., and at 1:50 P.M., one of the...

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