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JONES v. STATE

No. 28893.

301 S.W.2d 917 (1957)

George W. JONES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 17, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. C. Divine, Houston, for appellant.

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

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The offense is murder; the punishment, thirty years in the penitentiary.

The testimony of the state shows that the appellant, while in the Zebra Lounge on the night of April 20, said that "whenever he saw Heywood (deceased) he was going to kill him"; that the appellant and the deceased were at the lounge the following day where the appellant was seen opening his knife. Shortly thereafter they were seen going along the sidewalk, and when...

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