Buford v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

— The offense is murder; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for three years.

Appellant and deceased, John Taylor, had a difficulty at a- dance. Appellant cut deceased with a knife. Witnesses declared that after the difficulty had terminated the back of deceased’s coat was cut and he was bleeding. The difficulty occurred on the 14th of January, 1928. Deceased died on the 21st of January, 1928, at a hospital in the city of Hereford. Only the wife of deceased described the wounds inflicted upon him. She testified as follows;

“I didn’t examine the body of my husband…