Newhouse v. State

OPINION

DICE, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, ninety-nine years.

The evidence was undisputed that appellant killed the deceased by stabbing her with a knife.

The killing occurred about 9 a.m. inside a café known as Mae’s Place, in the city of Fort Worth. According to the state’s eye witness, the appellant walked over to a table where the deceased was seated and started stabbing her with a knife. Upon being asked to leave, appellant walked to the front door and as he started out he said to the deceased: “I told you I would kill you.”

Appellant then left the scene and went to the…