Jazo v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for murder; punishment, fifteen years in the penitentiary.

That deceased, a probation officer, was shot and killed at night in a house when only appellant and another Mexican, Magana by name, were present, — is not denied, but affirmed by appellant’s own testimony. The house where the killing occurred was one of a number of three roomed houses fronting on a narrow alley, the entrance to which was from Dart Street and the other end of which was a railroad right-of-way fence. The houses were of the ordinary shot gun variety. Appellant and Magana had the middle room of…