Cade v. State

OPINION

DUGGAN, Justice.

A jury found the appellant, Curtis Eugene Cade, guilty of attempted murder, and the trial court found an enhancement allegation was true and assessed punishment at 22 years imprisonment. Cade brings seven points of error.

Cade was accused of trying to kill L.J. Williams, a dispatcher and payroll clerk for S.E.M. Temporaries, where Cade worked as a temporary laborer. At trial, Williams testified that Cade had attacked him with a knife at the end of the business day on August 3, 1988. Williams testified that Cade stabbed him six or seven times, in the chest, head, back,…