Wright v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The conviction is for the offense of murder. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of seven years.

The testimony adduced upon the trial, briefly stated, shows that appellant was employed at a C. C. C. Camp but lived with his wife and a sixteen-year-old daughter in the town of Memphis, Texas, while his son was in the U. S. Army stationed at some place in Wyoming. John Gonzales, the deceased, was at the time employed as a waiter and cook at the camp, as were other Mexicans. Appellant and deceased became friends and at times the deceased and…