Johnson v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, fifty years in the penitentiary.

An extended statement of facts is not deemed called for. It is sufficient to say that the State’s testimony shows that appellant, without justification or excuse, killed the deceased by stabbing him in the chest with a knife. The defensive testimony showed a killing in self-defense. The issue of aggravated assault also arose.

Bill of Exception No. 1, upon its face, complains of opening argument of State’s counsel in the use of the following language: “the lawyers from Fort Worth, who are down here trying to…