Garza v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder with malice; the jury assessed the punishment at life.

The indictment alleged that on January 17, 1969, the appellant did kill and murder Solomon Abdo, Jr., by then and there stabbing him with a knife. The State’s evidence showed that Abdo was killed in the course of a robbery of Abdo’s Grocery Store on Zarzamora Street in San Antonio, in which the appellant participated along with Jesse Gonzalez, Jesse Montez, and Rubens Colunga. Gonzalez had given the knife to the appellant. Colunga and a female companion circled the…