Perez v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for the murder of Manuel Garcia and his punishment was assessed at 32 years in the penitentiary.

On the night of May 12, 1953, officers responding to a call went to the B-Wise Bar in Corpus Christi, operated by George Wise. They there found the deceased Manuel Garcia dead or in a dying condition from gunshot wounds, and also found George Wise and one Guadalupe Lopez, also known as Lupe Perez, Lupe Salizar and Lupe Garza. Wise and the woman Lupe each had bullet wounds. Wise had been shot three times and was slumped over the bar with a recently fired pistol…