Freeman v. State

DICE, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The state’s testimony shows that the appellant killed the deceased, Sandra Jean Maywald, his seventeen-year-old girl friend by cutting her with a knife. The homicide occurred at the deceased’s home when no one else was present. When the officers arrived at the scene they were met at the front door by the appellant who, with blood splattered on his shirt, glasses, and face, said “I am afraid I have just killed a person“You will probably want the knife that I killed her with too” and handed the officers a bloody bone handled one bladed…