Bustillos v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

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

The record shows that between sundown and dark on July 19, 1947, appellant and Cedro Gastello went to the home of the deceased, a city policeman by the name of Julio Herrera. Appellant approached the deceased from the rear, snatched Herrera’s pistol from its scabbard and shot him four or five times and then stabbed and cut him several times with a large knife. The wounds thus inflicted produced death within a very short time. It appears that appellant had been arrested for…