Embrey v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The conviction is for the offense of murder; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of ten years.

The deceased was killed at a church about a mile from town. He received a stab wound in the stomach. The knife used had a blade about three and three-quarters inches in length; and there was testimony to the effect that it was a deadly weapon.

A doctor testified that he was called and went immediately to the scene of the homicide, but that the deceased had died before he reached him. In the opinion of the doctor, he bled to death. The doctor did not…