Parker v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for life.

The State’s testimony shows that on the night of November 14, 1937, appellant, (a negro) met a girl friend at a beer tavern and restaurant in Hondo, Texas. They ate some sandwiches and later drank some beer. Martin Perez, a Mexican, had incurred appellant’s ill-will, either by making advances to appellant’s girl or because Perez, (who was station agent for a railroad at Hondo) had refused to allow appellant to get his girl’s trunks from the station without paying the freight…