Edmonson v. State

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder without malice; the punishment, five years.

The testimony of the state reveals that the appellant was visiting his niece, Dorothy, and her sister, Gloria, in Dorothy’s side of a duplex; that Ruthie, a sister of Dorothy and Gloria, lived in the other side of the duplex with the deceased. Shortly after the deceased and Ruthie came home around midnight, they heard them talking loudly but not arguing. At this time Dorothy went next door to visit, knocked on the door and called, and the deceased answered “I am coming.” While the deceased was coming…