Cortez v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
KRUEGER, Judge.
The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of 30 years.
The evidence adduced by the State, briefly stated, shows that late in the afternoon of April 19, 1940, Jim Hunt, a constable at Sinton in San Patricio County, accompanied by his son and two other young men, drove in an automobile to Zapata’s cafe in Sinton looking for a Mexican who> had tried to break into a house. Upon their arrival at the cafe, the constable went in, drank a glass of milk and told the proprietor that he was looking for a Mexican who had tried to-…
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