Pena v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of seventeen years.

It appears from the record before us that the appellant and the deceased were employed at a filling station in the City of Corpus Christi. On the afternoon of March 13, 1938, at about 7 P. M., an altercation arose between them which resulted in a stab wound being inflicted by appellant on the person of the deceased, from the effects of which he died in a very short time.

Appellant first complains of the court’s action in overruling his motion to quash the…