Oliver v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

Emma Oliver was convicted and assessed the death penalty for the murder with malice of Herman Cohn by cutting and stabbing him with a knife.

Shortly after midnight two police officers in response to a call went to a two-story building in the 2300 block of East Commerce Street in the city of San Antonio. The building consisted of some ten apartments, three of which were on the ground floor, and the officers were looking for a dead body.

The officers looked through the upstairs apartments, and upon coming downstairs they met appellant. They went into one of the downstairs…