Murray v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, two hundred years’ imprisonment.

Appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence.

Twenty-one year old Pat Mahaney was murdered in her apartment in Dallas on the evening of February 18, 1970. The physician who performed the autopsy testified that she had been stabbed and cut nu merous times in the neck, chest, stomach, and back; and that her throat had also been severely slashed. In his opinion, death had resulted from these wounds. The physician also said she may have been choked, but the choking had not caused her…