REEVES v. STATE

No. 36934.

379 S.W.2d 337 (1964)

Alex REEVES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 10, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert C. Martin, Amarillo, for appellant.

Dee D. Miller, Dist. Atty., B. G. Compton, Asst. Dist. Atty., Amarillo, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment fifteen years.

The State's witnesses plus appellant's written confession show that during the course of an argument in a cafe, appellant cut the unarmed deceased in the stomach with a knife and pursued him as he fled into the alley where he hit him with a board until someone intervened. In a stipulation in which appellant personally joined, it was agreed that deceased met his death as the result...

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