Pope v. State

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for murder with malice; the punishment, twenty years in the penitentiary.

The state’s evidence shows that the appellant killed the deceased by stabbing him with a knife. The homicide occurred around 12:15 A.M. on the early morning of June 25, 1955, near the intersection of Motley and Navigation Streets in the city of Houston.

The state’s witness Jo Ann York testified that, just prior to the killing, she was talking to the deceased and Wayne Crump, who were seated in an automobile parked near her apartment; that they were discussing going to Pearland to take Crump…