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NEWHOUSE v. STATE

No. 40746.

420 S.W.2d 729 (1967)

William NEWHOUSE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 15, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Leonard, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Frank Coffey, Dist. Atty., R. J. Adcock and Gordon Gray, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

DICE, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, ninety-nine years.

The evidence was undisputed that appellant killed the deceased by stabbing her with a knife.

The killing occurred about 9 a.m. inside a café known as Mae's Place, in the city of Fort Worth. According to the state's eye witness, the appellant walked over to a table where the deceased was seated and started stabbing her with a knife. Upon being asked to leave...

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