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WARD v. STATE

No. 24481.

225 S.W.2d 573 (1949)

WARD v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 11, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Fiel & O'Fiel, Beaumont, W. J. Baldwin, Beaumont, for appellant.

Jep S. Fuller, Criminal District Attorney, Beaumont, Ramie H. Griffin, Asst. Crim. Dist. Atty., Beaumont, George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appeal is from a conviction for murder with a sentence of thirty years in the penitentiary.

Appellant is charged with the murder of his wife. He had been drinking during the afternoon and this was the cause of a quarrel between them. The evidence shows that he kicked her several times, struck her in the mouth with a pair of pliers and, according to his written confession, threw a knife at her. This stuck in her leg,

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