Alcorta v. Texas

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1957-11-12

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Per Curiam. Petitioner, Alvaro Alcorta, was indicted for murder in a Texas state court for stabbing his wife to death. Vernon’s Tex. Pen. Code, 1948, Art. 1256. He admitted the killing but claimed it occurred in a fit of passion when *29 he discovered his wife, whom he had already suspected of marita…

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