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BELL v. STATE

No. 28436.

293 S.W.2d 771 (1956)

Arthur Ted BELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

October 3, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Tirey, Joe McNicholas, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Dallas, George P. Blackburn, Harvey Lindsay and A. D. Bowie, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 20 years.

The deceased, Billy Bob Benton, received two stab wounds in what appears to have been a gang fight, and died as a result of the wound in the groin which severed the femoral artery.

Appellant was charged and convicted of murder upon the theory that he inflicted the death wound with a knife with intent to kill Billy Bob Benton and with malice...

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