Vela v. State

HARPER, Judge.

In this case the appellant was indicted in the District Court of Caldwell County, charged with the offense of murder. Upon a trial he was adjudged guilty of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

1. The first ground in the motion for a new trial complains that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the judgment, and under this defendant insists that it is not shown that defendant killed the deceased, and that the evidence does not preclude the idea that deceased may not have died from other causes.

The shooting took…