Court Opinion

ID: 9858627
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 16:34:13.997526+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:55:12.610271
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On Appellant’s Motion for Rehearing
DICE, Commissioner.
We have again examined the record and the majority remain convinced that the court did not err in admitting in evidence the photographs of the deceased’s body and of the appellant.
The pictures showing the nature and location of the wounds on the deceased’s body and the bloody hands of appellant clearly tended to solve disputed issues in the case.
We have also examined the record in the light of appellant’s contention that the judgment should be reversed because the body of the deceased was not sufficiently identified as the person charged to have been killed, as required by Art. 1204, Vernon’s Ann.P.C.
The indictment charged that appellant killed Jessie J. Odum.
W. H. Perkins, the first witness called by the state testified that on the night of the killing he saw appellant with a person whom he knew by the name of “Jessie,” and who he later learned was Jessie Odum. He further testified that the next time he saw Jessie Odum he was lying, dead, on a slab at Ben Taub Hospital, with his throat cut and three slashes across the chest.
Deputy sheriffs Klevenhagen,. Deckman, and Knowles, throughout their testimony, referred to the dead- body found at the scene as that of Jessie Odum.
The testimony was sufficient to identify the deceased as the person charged to have been killed.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.
Opinion approved by the court