ADKINS v. STATE

No. 36180.

372 S.W.2d 702 (1963)

William A. ADKINS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 22, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman W. Black, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally and Neil McKay, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, life.

The appellant's brief states that he finds no serious fault with the following statement of the facts of the case found in the State's brief.

"The appellant, charged by indictment with the offense of Murder with Malice Aforethought of William Edwin Carter by cutting and stabbing him with a knife, entered a plea of not guilty. Upon a finding...

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