Case Name: Bob Granville POINTER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1965-06-02
Citations: 391 S.W.2d 62
Docket Number: No. 36347
Parties: Bob Granville POINTER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 391
Pages: 62–63

Head Matter:
Bob Granville POINTER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 36347.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 2, 1965.
Orville A. Harlan (On Appeal Only), Houston, for appellant.
Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Joe C. Shaffer and Daniel P. Ryan, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
DICE, Commissioner.
Appellant's conviction for robbery, with punishment assessed at life imprisonment, was affirmed by this court on December 18, 1963. Rehearing was denied on February 12, 1964. Pointer v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 375 S.W.2d 293.
Petition for writ of certiorari was granted by the Supreme Court of the United States and in an opinion delivered April 5, 1965, the judgment of this court affirming the conviction was reversed and the cause was remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with the opinion of the Su preme Court. Pointer v. State of Texas, 380 U.S. 400, 85 S.Ct. 1065, 13 L.Ed.2d 923, April 5, 1965.
The holding of the Supreme Court of the United States requires that the conviction be reversed by this court and the cause remanded.
It is so ordered.
Opinion approved by the Court.