Sanchez v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder with malice and his punishment was assessed at 20 years in the penitentiary.

*365Appellant, a man about 25 years of age, is married, and is the father of four children.

Appellant is the son of the boss of a crew engaged in harvesting and packing vegetables and other crops, and in the absence of his father acted as boss of the crew of some twenty to fifty Mexican laborers. Most if not all of the crew were “wetbacks,” that is, in the United States without passports.

Among the crew was one Sofia Serrato, a cousin of appellant’s wife, whose home was in…