Parish v. State

MORROW, Judge.

The conviction is for murder and punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for twenty years. The evidence is circumstantial.

The deceased Eliseo Ornelas, appears to have been a Mexican, owner of a Ford automobile which he operated for hire; that during the night of October 9th., appellant in company with one Foreman, both of them being soldiers in the United States army, made a- contract with the deceased to take them in his car to a point in the vicinity of San Antonio; that the two soldiers entered the car with the driver. One of them sitting on the front and the…