Housemate was killed with a kitchen knife.

By Steven Kreytak
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Wednesday, October 01, 2008

A man pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to eight years in prison earlier this month in the 1993 stabbing of his East Austin housemate.

Prosecutors said Tuesday that they struck the deal with Bobby Lewis Ingram — who had been scheduled to go to trial this week, two years after his arrest — because two key witnesses have died and they were afraid DNA evidence would have been questioned.

The sentence is much shorter than the decades in prison most convicted murderers receive in Travis County.

Ingram, now 63, was renting a room from James Ernest Hamilton in a house on East 11th Street when he called police there on Sept. 4, 1993, according to an affidavit.

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