Quintanilla v. State

OPINION

RALEIGH BROWN, Commissioner.

Appeal is taken from a conviction for murder with malice. Punishment was assessed by the court at fifty (50) years.

In his first ground of error the appellant challenges the court’s overruling his mo tion for an instructed verdict because of the insufficiency of the evidence to corroborate the testimony of the accomplice witness, Juan Ruiz.

Ruiz testified that on the night of the murder he had gone to the Astro Club in McAllen. As he sat in the Club, he saw the deceased standing just inside the entrance holding a beer. Noting the deceased’s departure with two…