Reeves v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment fifteen years.

The State’s witnesses plus appellant’s written confession show that during the course of an argument in a cafe, appellant cut the unarmed deceased in the stomach with a knife and pursued him as he fled into the alley where he hit him with a board until someone intervened. In a stipulation in which appellant personally joined, it was agreed that deceased met his death as the result of knife wounds in the stomach. Appellant testifying in his own behalf stated that when deceased put his hand in his pocket, he cut him…