Friedsam v. State

The appellant was convicted of murder with malice, and punishment fixed at fifty years confinement in the penitentiary.

It seems that appellant had hired a taxi driver, Ivan Cohen, in the city of Waco, to drive him around in a taxicab on August 19, 1936. After about an hour's driving around the city of Waco, and upon a return to appellant's home, he had an argument with the cab driver, and refused to pay the bill. The driver finally phoned to the police department, and officers Murphy and Baskin were sent to appellant's home. They drove up in their car and Cohen approached them and told them…