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DAVIS v. STATE

No. 32165.

339 S.W.2d 536 (1960)

Richard DAVIS, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

October 5, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. W. Blair, Richardson, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Criminal Dist. Atty., Frank W. Watts, Thomas B. Thorpe, Phil Burleson, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, Texas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, fifty years.

The State's witness Brigham testified that when he looked through the glass portion of a door to a pool hall after hearing a noise inside, he saw the appellant thrust the blade of a knife into the stomach of the deceased as the deceased appeared to be trying to open the door; that he did not see the deceased strike the appellant and did not see anything in the hands of the deceased...

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