Legal Opinion

Stephen v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided June 13, 1956No. 28345PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder without malice; the punishment, two years.

The state relied upon the appellant’s confession, which recited that she stabbed her husband with a knife and “kept on cutting him until we was in the street” and then went back in the house and put the knife in the dresser drawer. There were certain statements in the confession to the effect that the deceased was hitting her with a stick at the time she cut him with her knife, but, aside from them, it does contain the admission that she cut her husband several times and it was shown by other testimony…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Otts v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1938
  2. Wooley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1955
  3. Montalbo v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1942
  4. Paschal v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1915
  5. Garza v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1951

3Cited by22 opinions

  1. Daniel v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1984
  2. Starvaggi v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979
  3. Brock v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)2009
  4. McClelland v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1965
  5. Ticer v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1958

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