State v. Martinez

The appellant, Pedro Martinez, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and from the judgment and sentence of death he has perfected this appeal.

On the 26th of December, 1930, at about 6:45 p. m., in the little village of Cerrillos in Santa Fé county, Apolonia Narvaiz was murdered by a person who fired a shot from the street through a glass door of the house in which the deceased was standing and at the moment engaged in winding a clock. Tracks made by new No. 9 shoes, bearing on the heels the imprint of the manufacturer’s name, were found just outside the fence in the street opposite the…