RODRIGUEZ v. STATE

No. 39193.

401 S.W.2d 257 (1966)

Phillip Torres RODRIGUEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 27, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Browne, Houston (On Appeal Only), for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., James C. Brough and Carol S. Vance, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


McDONALD, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment, 99 years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

It is undisputed that appellant stabbed Mike Ramirez during a bar-room fight in Harris County on October 7, 1963, and that Ramirez died eleven days later in Ben Taub Hospital after the knife wound had partially healed. The evidence reflects that there had been ill feelings between the appellant and the deceased for some...

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