Encina v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MORRISON, Judge.
The offense is murder; the punishment, fifteen (IS) years.
Appellant, in his first three grounds of error, challenges the sufficiency of the evidence.
The entire case against the appellant is made out in the testimony of two physicians and the confession of the appellant. His confession reads as follows:
“My name is Pedro Nanez Encina I’am 20 years old. . . Last Sunday night October 12th, 1969 at about 10:00 P.M. I was at home my father’s house in Mathis, San patricio County, Texas. When my Comman law’s wife’s baby David - said he wanted to go to the rest room, and all…
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