Cordes v. State

257 S.W.2d 704 (1953)

CORDES

v.

STATE.

No. 26297.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 18, 1953.

Rehearing Denied May 13, 1953.

W. E. Martin, James Hill Letts, James J. Shown, Vincent J. Licata, Houston, for appellant.

William H. Scott, Crim. Dist. Atty., King C. Haynie, Asst. Crim. Dist. Atty., Houston, George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

WOODLEY, Judge.

The appeal is from a death penalty for the offense of murder.

Appellant confessed that he killed Cleora McCord by stabbing her with an ice pick. She was found dead or in a dying condition in the bathtub in her garage…