Cavazos v. State

OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, twenty-five years.

Appellant’s first ground for reversal in his brief is that the trial court erred in permitting Dr. Delavega, who performed the autopsy, to testify to the position of the deceased and the appellant at the time of the killing. The ground being that it invades the province of the jury.

Dr. Delavega, a pathologist, testified that in performing an autopsy upon the body of the deceased, he found four gunshot wounds: That one entered the right temple at the hairline passing downward through the head, and lodging in…