Rodriquez v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Webb. On change of venue from Duval. Tried below before Hon. A. L. McLane. A severance having been taken by the parties, the codefendant, Molina, was tried and convicted: and the venue of the case as to this defendant was changed to Webb County from Duval County; where, having there been placed upon his trial, defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment fixed at a life term in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the District Court of Webb. On change of venue from Duval. Tried below before Hon. A. L. McLane. A severance having been taken by the parties, the codefendant, Molina, was tried and convicted: and the venue of the case as to this defendant was changed to Webb County from Duval County; where, having there been placed upon his trial, defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment fixed at a life term in the penitentiary. A concise statement of the substance of the salient features of the evidence is as follows: Thomas Henderson, the deceased, was a…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for life.
1. The court did not err in admitting in evidence the map or plat of the town in which the homicide occurred. The diagram was made by the county surveyor, and shown by him to be a correct map of the town. This was proper and legitimate, not only for the purpose of explaining the testimony of the witness and rendering it more intelligible than it would otherwise have been, but also for the purpose of enabling the jury to better understand and apply the…
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