Opinion

Baker v. State

  • 399 S.W.2d 561
  • 1966 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 864
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Filed
Jan 12, 1966
Status
Published
Author
Morrison
On the bench
Woodley, Morrison
Cited by
1 cases
Authority
More cited than 10.8%

The opinion

ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING

MORRISON, Judge.

Appellant contends that we did not distinguish this case from our relatively recent case of Noe v. State, 162 Tex.Cr.R. 483 , 286 S.W.2d 942 . In that case the charge read in part as follows: “In your deliberations you should not attempt to arrive at a verdict by lot or chance or by ballots as to the particular punishment each juror is in favor of assessing * *

In the case at bar the portion of the charge quoted in our original opinion relating to the jury’s verdict does not mention punishment.

We have examined the record in Winfrey v. State, 84 Tex.Cr.R. 579 , 209 S.W. 151 , upon which appellant relies, and it is apparent that such case was reversed because the charge was an oral rather than a written one. Anything else in the opinion must be considered as dicta.

Remaining convinced that a proper disposition was made originally, the appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.

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