Dunnaway v. State

PRICE, Judge.

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of murder in the second degree, and was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in the State penitentiary.

The evidence is without dispute or conflict that James Allen died shortly after a personal encounter with defendant and that the cause of his death was a wound in the side caused by a roofing knife. The coroner’s testimony as to the wounds on the body of deceased is as follows:

“There were seven cuts in the body, ali of them more or less on the left side. 'One cut started under the left arm here (indicating) and 'severed this muscle I…