Case Name: Tom SHOOK v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1931-02-11
Citations: 35 S.W.2d 1118
Docket Number: No. 14128
Parties: Tom SHOOK v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 35
Pages: 1118–1119

Head Matter:
Tom SHOOK v. STATE.
No. 14128.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 11, 1931.
Robertson & Friberg and Gerald Coffey, all of Wichita Falls, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
CHRISTIAN, J.
The offense is murder; the punishment,, confinement in the penitentiary for thirty years.
No bills of exception are found in the record. The jury were warranted in concluding from the evidence that appellant threatened to kill Oscar Dougherty, and that he thereafter killed him by cutting and stabbing him with a knife. Such facts were not controverted. Appellant offered no testimony.
The judgment is affirmed.
PER CURIAM.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the court.