DeLeon v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder with malice and assessed a penalty of ten years in the penitentiary.

The appellant, the deceased, and the principal witnesses in the case, are all of Mexican descent. The evidence is much in conflict as to the things which happened in the afternoon preceding the killing, but all material issues thus involved were decided by the jury for the state. Any discussion of the evidence herein will be from that standpoint. If the state’s evidence be true, as the jury viewed it, the verdict of guilt was justified. We need, therefore, to- consider only…