Martinez v. State

DICE, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

*98The state’s evidence shows that on the night in question Leslie Riggins and his wife went to a night club in the city of Midland around midnight, taking with’ them their five young children, including their baby girl, Cynthia, 9 months of age. Upon arriving at the club the parents went in and left the children asleep in the car, the baby being on the front seat. Later the father returned to the car to check the children and found that Cynthia, the baby, was gone and thereupon called the police.

In the search and investigation which…