KNAPP v. STATE

No. 36567.

376 S.W.2d 352 (1964)

Robert KNAPP, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 11, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No attorney of record on appeal for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally, James C. Brough and Lee P. Ward, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

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

While the deceased was visiting a friend in Houston on August 13, he received a telephone call about 8 p. m., from a girl friend of the appellant. After the call the deceased became very nervous and said he had to leave to meet the appellant and his girl friend. In July the appellant had severely abused the deceased in his mother's presence, saying at the time: "I hate to do...

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