Rivas v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, fifteen years’ imprisonment.

The State’s principal witness was an eleven year old shoeshine boy who had observed the appellant run out of a bar, unlock the trunk of an automobile, remove a rifle and shoot the deceased. One of the appellant’s grounds of error is that he was not permitted to show this witness’ juvenile delinquency record for the purpose of impeaching him. 1

It has long been held that a witness may be impeached by proof of felony convictions, or misdemeanor convictions involving moral turpitude, which are…