Court Opinion

ID: 9778309
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 20:59:51.908042+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:07.496102
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DISSENTING OPINION
MORRISON, Judge.
The cases cited in the majority opinion have no resemblance to the facts before us here. A careful examination of the authorities leads me to conclude that the situation presented here is almost on all fours with that before the Court in Trimble v. State, 148 Tex.Cr.R. 596, 190 S.W.2d 123. There, as here, the injured party intervened at a time when the accused was making an attack upon a third party. In that case the Court, in reversing the conviction, said:
“(T)he knife used was not per se a deadly weapon nor was the wound inflicted such as would have produced death, nor was it of a serious nature. Neither is there any evidence that appellant expressed any intention to kill the injured party.”
The rule announced above has been followed by this Court when similar facts were before us in Daniels v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 215 S.W.2d 624, and in Barnes v. State, 172 Tex.Cr.R. 303, 356 S.W.2d 679, and again in Barnes v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 366 S.W.2d 586, and should be followed here.
I respectfully dissent.