Carrasco v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The trial was held in Hudspeth County on a change of venue from Culberson County.

Deceased, Mary Smith, and her husband, Riley Smith, resided on a cattle ranch in Culberson County. Appellant was employed by them and was the only other person living on the ranch. He occupied a part of a tool house, a short distance from the Smith residence. On the night of June 2, 1934, between 11 and 12 o’clock, appellant went to the town of Van Horn in a Ford truck belonging to the Smiths and reported to Manuel Dianda and Constable H. B. Clark that…