Wright v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for murder, punishment being three years in the penitentiary.

The parties" involved are negroes. In an encounter with Pinkie Tolliver appellant stabbed Pinkie with a knife; she was taken to a sanitarium where physicians determined that internal injury had been inflicted and that an operation was necessary. The operation disclosed that both the front and back walls of the stomach had been penetrated. The wounds were sewed up and Pinkie died something like an hour later, never having come from under the effect of the anesthetic.

The only complaint brought forward is…