Jiminez v. State

BERRY, Judge.

The appellant was convicted in the District Court of Bexar County for the offense of murder and his punishment assessed at death.

The facts show that the deceased was the wife of the appellant and that the appellant killed both his wife and Juan Aranda, a young man between eighteen and nineteen years of age; the killing occurred at the home of the appellant. It was the state’s theory that the appellant had become tired of his wife and desired to live with another woman and that he brought the deceased Aranda to his house and killed him first in order to predicate a defense thereon…