Cooper v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for twenty-five years.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Willie B. Love by stabbing him with a knife.

According to the testimony of the State, the appellant, without justification or excuse, stabbed deceased to death with a knife. It was appellant’s version, given support in his own testimony and that of other witnesses, that at the time he killed deceased he was defending himself against an actual attack deceased was making upon him with a…