Padron v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Nueces. Tried below before Hon. M. F. Lowe, on exchange with Hon. Stanley Welch. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, fifteen years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Sabas Ramirez, on the 28th of February, 1899, by beating and kicking him.
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Appeal from the District Court of Nueces. Tried below before Hon. M. F. Lowe, on exchange with Hon. Stanley Welch. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, fifteen years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Sabas Ramirez, on the 28th of February, 1899, by beating and kicking him. The following statement of the evidence adduced at the trial is taken from the brief of appellant: The witness for the State, Martinez, testified that on Saturday, February 25, 1899, appellant, deceased, and witness, with others, were at the…
1Opinion of the Court
BBOOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of fifteen years.
Appellant reserved an exception to the court’s refusal to allow him to propound the following questions on cross-examination of the State witness W. B. Bates: “Immediately after arresting defendant, did you ask him where the dead man was? Did he [defendant] not say that he left him in the back part of Losano’s saloon, and that he knew nothing more of his whereabouts?” The State objected on the ground that same were self-serving…
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