Escamilla v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

Bill of exception No. 1 deals with the refusal of the court to permit appellant to introduce in evidence a letter written to appellant by Jose Perez, who was appellant’s co-principal. It was stated in this letter that Perez alone killed deceased, Matias Garza, and that appellant did not inflict any of the wounds on deceased. The state relied upon direct evidence, the witnesses testifying that appellant and Perez attacked deceased with knives and that Perez stabbed him to death. In cases in…