Legal Opinion

Mercado v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 30, 1924No. 8030Published

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Appellant is condemned to confinement in the penitentiary for life for the murder of Guillermo Sayas.

The deceased, in a Ford car belonging to his sister, left her home in Brownsville about three o’clock on Monday afternoon, expressing his intention to go to the appellant and obtain a pistol which he had previously delivered to him. Appellant, on the same afternoon, was at work on a Dodge car belonging to one Tomayo. The deceased came in the Ford car to Tomayo’s place of business, saw the- appellant and had an interview with him. Afterwards on the same day, they were…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Lagrone v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1919
  2. Simmons v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1909
  3. Wallace v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1904
  4. Chapman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1903
  5. Wilson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1913

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