Ramos v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder without malice under the provisions of Article 802c, Vernon’s Ann.P.C.; the punishment assessed by the jury, four (4) years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

The deceased, Fred Peebles, was an off-duty, uniformed Harris County deputy sheriff, escorting a funeral procession when he died on the afternoon of September 23, 1965. He was standing astride his motorcycle directing traffic as the funeral procession passed onto the Eastex Freeway in Harris County, Texas when an automobile driven by appellant entered the…