Gibson v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is death.

The state’s evidence, briefly stated, shows that on the night of the 6th day of November, 1948, appellant entered the home of Juan Olague where the deceased, a boy about fifteen years of age, was asleep on a bed and stabbed him several times with a dagger, inflicting fatal wounds from the effects of which death resulted in a very short time. A little girl who had gone to the house to borrow some matches saw appellant in the house with the dagger in his hand and heard the boy say, “Please don’t hit me no more.” She ran to…