Miles v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

This appeal is taken from a conviction for the offense of murder with malice. Punishment was assessed at life imprisonment.

Appellant alleges one ground of error.

The State’s version of the facts is unchallenged. An eyewitness testified that on March 13, 1965, at approximately 3:30 p.m., the appellant and the deceased got into a fistfight in her yard. After the fight, appellant went inside the witness’s house to wash up. At this point, Ruby Calhoun, a friend of appellant’s, came out of the house and hit deceased and tried to Btab him with a knife. She then went back into…