HUNT v. STATE

No. 63132.

603 S.W.2d 865 (1980)

John Maxwell HUNT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Panel No. 1.

Rehearing Denied September 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Law, Dallas, for appellant.

Bill M. White, Dist. Atty., James W. Blagg, Elizabeth H. Taylor and Douglas V. McNeel, Asst. Dist. Attys., San Antonio, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before ONION, P. J., and ROBERTS and DALLY, JJ.


OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This appeal was taken from a conviction for murder, V.T.C.A., Penal Code, § 19.02. Punishment was assessed by the jury at eighteen (18) years' confinement.

The record reflects that on the night of October 31, 1977, police patrol officers were called to appellant's home in San Antonio, in response to a report that someone had died there, apparently of natural causes. Appellant, who had made the call to the police...

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