MORRIS v. STATE

No. 30499.

322 S.W.2d 632 (1959)

Julius MORRIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 11, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harkness & Friedman, Texarkana, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder without malice; the punishment, 5 years.

The evidence is undisputed that on the night in question the appellant stabbed the deceased with a butcher knife. The stabbing occurred in front of a house occupied by the appellant as the two were walking on a sidewalk. According to the State's witnesses the deceased was making no attack upon appellant and after appellant stabbed the deceased, the deceased fell, crawled...

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