KRZESINSKI v. STATE

No. 31610.

333 S.W.2d 149 (1960)

Walter Edward KRZESINSKI, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 16, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Wilson, Jules H. Cuen, El Paso, for appellant.

William E. Clayton, Dist. Atty., Edwin F. Berliner, Lawrence M. Welsch, Gus Rallis, Assts. Dist. Atty., El Paso, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 25 years.

The killing occurred on New Years 1959 at the Tri-State Hotel in El Paso.

The evidence sustains the jury's finding that appellant with malice aforethought killed Lionel L. (Lee) Dubuque by stabbing him with a knife, as charged in the indictment.

Counsel for appellant urges one ground for reversal, which is that the State's witness Roxanne Newsome (also referred to as Mrs. Krzesinski...

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