Martinez v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— The offense is murder; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of twenty-five years.

While controverted, the evidence is such as to support the finding of the jury that the appellant killed Gregorio Castillo by shooting him with a pistol. The homicide took place at a dance. Eusebio Casiano, an eye-witness, testified that he saw the fatal shots fired by the appellant. -Immediately after the shots were fired, the wife of the deceased, who was at the dance, ran to her husband, who said that Pancho Martinez had shot him. The deceased was in the…