Jones v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, thirty years in the penitentiary.

The testimony of the state shows that the appellant, while in the Zebra Lounge on the night of April 20, said that “whenever he saw Heywood (deceased) he was going to kill him;” that the appellant and the deceased were at the lounge the following day where the appellant was seen opening his knife. Shortly thereafter they were seen going along the sidewalk, and when they were next seen the appellant had the deceased down on the ground; the appellant had in his hand “a pocket knife or a case knife * * * you…