Villarreal v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The conviction is for assault with intent to murder; the punishment seven years.

The record reflects that appellant shot Jose Chavez with a rifle. Chavez, a minister of a Baptist mission, was walking down a street in San Antonio with three others at about 9:30 in the evening when the shot hit him near the spinal column causing him to be paralyzed so that he would never be able to walk.

Maria Valdez testified that she saw appellant with a rifle in his hand, and another boy near her house; that when she told them some detectives were coming, she was called a stool pigeon,…