Legal Opinion

Anderson v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided June 16, 1965No. 38344PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, life.

The indictment alleged that appellant voluntarily and with malice aforethought killed Tom Tolivar by cutting and stabbing him with a knife.

Police officers patrolling in the vicinity about 9 P.M. observed a colored man lying in the street in the 3700 block of Wendelkin Street in Dallas and a ’56 Buick with the door open.

“There was a reddish-brown substance to the right of the vehicle and upon the grass and on the sidewalk and up in the yard here and to the rear of the car on the pavement all the way around to on the east side of the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Arnold v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
  2. Yeagin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1966
  3. James Charles Anderson v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
  4. Helton v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1982
  5. Helton v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1982

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