Villarreal v. State

355 S.W.2d 516 (1962)

Ignacio S. VILLARREAL, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 34029.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 10, 1962.

Rehearing Denied February 28, 1962.

John J. Pichinson and Wm. Brode Mobley, Jr., Corpus Christi, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

McDONALD, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 25 years' confinement in the penitentiary.

The sole question presented and urged upon the appeal is the contention that appellant's plea of former jeopardy should have been sustained.

The record shows that appellant had been previously…