POPE v. STATE

No. 28129.

288 S.W.2d 82 (1956)

Fred Vincent POPE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 14, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Gabriel Nahas, Jr., Vincent J. Licata, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Eugene Brady, and Thomas D. White, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder with malice; the punishment, twenty years in the penitentiary.

The state's evidence shows that the appellant killed the deceased by stabbing him with a knife. The homicide occurred around 12:15 A.M. on the early morning of June 25, 1955, near the intersection of Motley and Navigation Streets in the city of Houston.

The state's witness Jo Ann York testified that, just prior to the killing, she was talking...

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