Flores v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Falls County of the murder of Oscar Sharp, and his punishment fixed at death.

Appellant was a Mexican, apparently without means of employing counsel, and the trial court is to be congratulated that in his selection of some one to represent the accused, he placed the case into the hands of men who have apparently taken every possible step to preserve and present the rights of appellant.

An affidavit was made in form as suggested by our statute, that appellant was a juvenile under the age of 17 years at the time of the trial. This…