Green v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— Conviction for murder; punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

After an argument between appellant and deceased in a restaurant, a difficulty presently ensued, on the porch of the building, in which deceased was cut three times, one cut, a stab wound, going through the walls of the abdominal cavity and penetrating the stomach. The cutting was on Tuesday night, and deceased died the following Sunday, peritonitis having set in.

Inasmuch as appellant on cross-examination brought out from the first state witness, and later from others, the fact that appellant came to the…