Morris v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, life.

By all the witnesses, it was established that the homicide *517occurred inside, and at the front end of, a city of Houston bus, while taking on passengers on Main Street at approximately 2:30 p. m. on October 11, 1951. The appellant, a 23-year-old ex-convict, was a passenger; the deceased was the driver of the bus. The lethal weapon was a pocket knife with a blade 3 or 31/2 inches long.

As appellant entered the bus, he had some words with a fellow passenger. Because of this controversy, the deceased tendered the appellant a transfer in…