Thomas v. State

RICE, Judge.

Appellant, a twenty-two year old girl, cut Oliver Brannon, a young man thirty-three years of age, with a knife, on the third day of August, 1941. On the 15th day of August, 1941, Oliver Brannon died, admittedly as a result of the knife wound inflicted by appellant.

The evidence without dispute tended to show that on Sunday afternoon shortly after four o’clock, on August 3rd 1941, appellant and deceased, together with appellant’s younger sister, aged seventeen, and another man named Vertís Black, were together at or near a bridge on a country road in Walker County, and that they had…