Shannon v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

— The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for six years.

Deceased, Norman Williams, received a wound in the heart at the hands of appellant. The testimony shows that the knife used by appellant had a blade approximately two and one-half inches long. Appellant testified that he did not intend to kill deceased, his version of the transaction being that deceased threatened to kill him and made a movement as if to draw a weapon from- his hip pocket. According to appellant’s testimony, deceased "had been following him around in an endeavor to bring…