Anselmo v. State

MORROW, Judge.

Appellant appeals from a judgment condemning him to twelve years confinement in the penitentiary for the offense of murder.

Appellant and deceased were Mexicans, or of Mexican descent. Deceased was stabbed and killed on the streets of Dallas at night-time. Appellant admitted that he stabbed a man whom the other testimony identifies as deceased named in the indictment, and the evidence shows that the deceased died almost immediately from the wounds. The State’s theory as developed by the evidence of its witness Baker and some corroborating circumstances was that the appellant…