Flores v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for life.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed John H. James by shooting him with a pistol.

The homicide occurred about seven o’clock in the evening at the store of the deceased and his sons-in-law. On the day of the homicide Pino Moreno, Jose Leon, and appellant left Las Cruces, New Mexico, in a green Chrysler automobile owned by appellant, and drove to El Paso, which is approximately forty miles from Las Cruces. After eating supper in El Paso,…