Case ID: sw_261/html/0780-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORROW, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GRIFFIN v. STATE.
    (No. 7580.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    May 7, 1924.)
    Criminal law <&wkey;1070 — Death of appellant abates appeal.
    Where death of appellant is made known to court by duly verified affidavit, appeal will be abated.
    CgsaFor other eases see same topic and KEY-NUMBER In all Key-Numbered Digests and Indexes
    Appeal from District Court, Wichita County ; P. A. Martin, Judge.
    Lon Griffin was convicted of manslaughter, and' he appeals.
    Appeal abated.
    Martin, Oneal & Allred, of Wichita Palls, for appellant.
    R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   MORROW, P. J.

The conviction is for manslaughter; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

The opinion heretofore rendered, affirming the judgment, is withdrawn.

The death of the appellant having been made known to this court by an affidavit duly verified, it is ordered that the appeal be abated.