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- Title: Martin Vargas v. State Texas
- Author : 850 Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas No. 41
- Release Date : January 25, 1969
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
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The offense is burglary, the punishment, four years. At appellant's trial, the State called a co-indictee who had previously been convicted for the burglary with which appellant
was charged. The co-indictee claimed the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination throughout examination by the
prosecutor and even under threat of contempt. Upon the witness' first refusal to answer a question, the prosecutor said: "This
man has no right to refuse to testify on the grounds of incrimination. He's already been convicted of the offense for which
he is to be questioned." Voir dire examination later developed that the prosecutor had spoken with the witness the previous
day in jail and that when the prosecutor told the witness he was going to be called, the witness made no response.