Perez v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Murder is the offense; the punishment, seventy-five years in the penitentiary

This killing took place in the front, or lobby, of a motion picture theatre about seven p. m. on October 18, 1947.

Rendon, twenty-four years of age, had a conversation with the appellant in the balcony of the theatre. He (Rendon) left and went down stairs to the lobby where the deceased, Maria Herrera, a young lady eighteen years of age, was standing. Rendon and deceased were engaged in a conversation when appellant came down and dashed immediately to Rendon, stabbing him in the groin with a knife. He…