Court Opinion

ID: 9762193
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 02:15:26.630164+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:31.724260
License: Public Domain

ON STATE’S AMENDED MOTION FOR REHEARING
ODOM, Judge.
On August 9, 1972, the Honorable Preston Smith, Governor of Texas, granted appellant a commutation of sentence from death to life imprisonment.
The imposition of the death penalty is no longer possible. The order of the United States Supreme Court reversing and remanding the judgment “insofar as it imposes the death sentence” is satisfied. See Whan v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 485 S.W.2d 275 (1972).
The State’s Amended Motion For Rehearing is granted. The order of reversal is set aside, and the judgment is affirmed.
ONION, P. J., dissents for reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in Whan v. State, supra.