Vasquez v. State

McDonald, judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for twenty years.

It is undisputed that on April 15, 1961, the appellant stabbed the deceased, Roger Alvarado, with a knife, and that Alvarado died as a result of those wounds.

The homicide was the termination of a series of minor fights and “fracases” between appellant and the deceased. Both parties were only sixteen years of age at the time of the offense and had been involved in three separate “bits of trouble” prior to the homicide. Appellant testified that the fight at school had begun by…