Hampton v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is death.

The State’s testimony shows that on Saturday night of August 21, 1938, appellant without cause or provocation stabbed his wife in the chest with an ice pick while she was sitting in an automobile. He then carried her down the street toward their home. On the way he knocked her down two or three times while she begged for mercy. He took her into an enclosed field of about three or four acres, where he left her without summoning medical aid. About 4 a. m. he told his mother that he had found his wife dead in the enclosure…