Tompkins v. State

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals · Decided 1987-10-07

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OPINION TEAGUE, Judge. Phillip Daniel Tompkins, hereinafter appellant, was convicted by a jury of intentionally causing the death of Mary D. Berry while in the course of committing or attempting to commit the offenses of robbery and kidnapping of Berry, which elevated the offense of murder to capital murder. See V.T.C.A., Penal Code, Section 19.-03(a)(2). After the jury answered in the affirmative the special…

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