Beckham v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for ten years.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Knox Edmondson by cutting him with a knife.

Appellant earnestly insists that the evidence is insufficient to warrant a conviction for murder upon malice aforethought. The contention is that the proof on the part of the state shows *496that appellant acted under the immediate influence of a sudden passion arising from an adequate cause at the time he struck the fatal blow. Looking to the testimony of…