TATUM v. STATE

No. 26571.

261 S.W.2d 723 (1953)

TATUM v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 4, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Banks, Kermit, for appellant.

Wesley Dice, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The conviction is for assault with intent to murder Pat Coffee; the punishment eight years in the penitentiary.

The evidence, including the confession of appellant and his testimony on the trial, shows without dispute that appellant, without legal justification or excuse, cut and stabbed Willie Mae Deams, the woman with whom he had been living, with a long knife or bayonet; then attacked the prosecuting witness Pat Coffee, her male companion...

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