Salazar v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the murder of Paul Kennedy, and by the jury given the penalty of death.

This offense was alleged to have been committed in Tom Greene County, Texas, and the trial court, on motion of appellant, changed the venue to Nolan County, where this trial was had.

The appellant, a Mexican man, had previously worked for the deceased, on deceased’s farm near Miles in Tom Green County, for two years intermittently, picking cotton and doing some field work. He probably became anamored with the deceased’s daughter Wilma, a girl about sixteen years of age, and had at…