Castillo v. State

362 S.W.2d 320 (1962)

Prisciliano R. CASTILLO, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 34759.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

October 31, 1962.

Rehearing Denied December 12, 1962.

Murray J. Howze, Monahans, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 10 years.

Officer Titus testified that, in response to a call, he went to a house on East Ninth Street in the city of Pecos on the night in question and there saw a woman lying in the front yard and observed a gun wound in her lower back. Within a few minutes, a…