Delgado v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DOUGLAS, Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction for murder. Punishment was assessed by the jury at twenty-five years. Appellant contends that the court erred in admitting evidence that one of the alleged killers, several days after the homicide at the funeral home, punched an eye of the deceased back into his head, and that the court erred in admitting testimony that appellant and the co-indictees refused to sign the magistrate’s warning. We reverse upon the first contention.
The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged. The offense occurred on June 16, 1974, between 10:00 and…
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