Flores v. State

DAVID SOFT, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted for unlawfully marrying a negro woman, under article 346 of the Penal Code, which prohibits intermarriage of whites with the negro race. The statute includes all persons as negroes who are as such within the third degree. Appellant was given two years in the penitentiary.

The evidence shows that, appellant was a Mexican, or of Spanish extraction. There is no evidence in the record that he had any negro blood in his veins, and his testimony, as far as it goes, excludes the idea that such was the case. The testimony of the woman appellant…