Case ID: sw2d_232/html/0991-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CLEMONS v. STATE.
    No. 24975.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 18, 1950.
    None on appeal, for appellant.
    George P. Blackburn, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Conviction was for murder and the punishment assessed at death.

An appeal was perfected to this court. Proper showing is made to this court that pending appeal and while appellant was confined in the County Jail of Hill County at Hillsboro, Texas, he committed suicide by hanging himself, and upon such showing the appeal is abated.