Guajardo v. State

McDonald, judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The evidence reflects that following an. evening of heavy drinking, the appellant got into a fight with several friends. Appellant’s testimony reflects that, after running from the scene of the scuffle, a car tried to run him down. He ran home and got a revolver, but his mother seized the cartridges and refused to give them to him.

His mother testified that a car pulled up in front of the house just as her son got there and that the occupants were yelling .and cursing the appellant.

The appellant went to several neighbors’…