STEPHEN v. STATE

No. 28345.

293 S.W.2d 789 (1956)

Beautle Belle STEPHEN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 13, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Vial, Ernest S. Goens, Dallas, for appellant.

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


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder without malice; the punishment, two years.

The State relied upon the appellant's confession, which recited that she stabbed her husband with a knife and "kept on cutting him until we was in the street" and then went back in the house and put the knife in the dresser drawer. There were certain statements in the confession to the effect that the deceased was hitting her with a stick at the time she cut him with...

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