Galindo v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Jesus A. Benavides by shooting him with a gun.

The companion case of Benavides v. The State, is found reported in 60 S. W., Second Series, at page 436. In the companion case Maria Benavides was convicted of being an accomplice to the crime of murder, it being alleged in the indictment that Carlos Galindo (the appellant in the present case) was the principal offender.

Deceased was night watchman. On the night of May 3, 1932, he was found…