235 S.W.2d 638 | Tex. Crim. App. | 1951
Appellant was convicted of murder with malice and given a term of 20 years in the penitentiary. She appeals.
The facts show that appellant killed Virgie Mae McCoy by stabbing her with a knife. The testimony shows a crowd of Negroes at a beer hall until closing time, and evidently some talk relative to the deceased and the appellant’s husband. Appellant seemed to have been possessed of a knife, an “East Dallas Special,” and as the parties were leaving the beer hall, preparatory to its closing, appellant stabbed the deceased one time in or near the heart from which wound she died immediately.
Appellant claimed self-defense, and such defense was submitted to the jury under appropriate instructions and evidently given no credence by them.
The judgment will therefore be affirmed.