Martinez v. State

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

Appellant Emeterio Martinez was convicted of murder. Punishment was assessed at forty years. Appellant raises twenty points of error.

The evidence at trial showed that the body of a young woman was found on a dirt road near a drainage ditch in Hidalgo County. She was last seen in the company of appellant and his companion Rodolfo Morales. The woman had left a tavern with the two men in appellant’s blue Lincoln Continental, lured by the promise that they would take her to Houston and find employment for her. The following morning, her body was discovered with four…