McGowen v. State

290 S.W.2d 521 (1956)

Yancy A. McGOWEN, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 27794.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 29, 1956.

Rehearing Denied May 9, 1956.

Sam L. Harrison, San Antonio, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Eugene Brady, Thomas D. White, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The indictment charged that the appellant killed Herbert Schwartz by cutting and stabbing him with a knife, and further alleged a prior conviction of a capital offense for the…