Castillo v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
This appeal is from a judgment of conviction for rape, wherein the punishment is assessed at death. All the essential facts in the case will be found contained in the testimony of the prosecutrix and her grandmother, which we reproduce in full. Luz Romero, for the State, being duly sworn, testified as follows: I know the defendant.
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This appeal is from a judgment of conviction for rape, wherein the punishment is assessed at death. All the essential facts in the case will be found contained in the testimony of the prosecutrix and her grandmother, which we reproduce in full. Luz Romero, for the State, being duly sworn, testified as follows: I know the defendant. (Witness here points him out to the jury.) He is the man who took hold of me when I was coming from Mr. Mayer’s, where I had been sent that day on an errand. I had noticed him following me before he overtook me. Before I got opposite Mr. Lyons’ house I saw Matías…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of the crime of rape, and his punishment assessed at death.
Three bills of exception were reserved to the ruling of the court in relation to the admission of testimony. By the first bill it is made to appear that the prosecutrix was permitted to testify, 11 that she told her grandmother, Luz Juarez, when she got home, that a man who followed her, who had a scar on his face, took her and pulled her in the bushes, near where there is a mesquit bush, close to Mr. Lyons’ house, and did bad things to her and hurt her.” By the second bill it is disclosed that…
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